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dc.contributor.authorHaney, Peter C.
dc.date.accessioned2012-06-26T15:54:35Z
dc.date.available2012-06-26T15:54:35Z
dc.date.issued2003
dc.identifier.citationHaney, Peter. (2003) “Bilingual Humor, Verbal Hygiene, and the Gendered Contradictions of Cultural Citizenship in Early Mexican American Comedy.” Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 13(2), pp. 163-188. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jlin.2003.13.2.163
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1808/9943
dc.descriptionThis is the Author's Final Draft. The publisher's official version is available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jlin.2003.13.2.163. The audio files are also available online at http://linguisticanthropology.org/journal/web-enhanced-articles/blingual-humor/ .
dc.description.abstractThis article examines the paradoxes of linguistic purism in a series of sound recordings of comic dialogues made by Mexican immigrant comedians in San Antonio, Texas, during the Depression. The dialogues present characters who mix English and Spanish as transgressors of gender roles and national identities, reserving their harshest criticism for women. However, bilingual wordplay in the dialogues suggests a dialectically opposed ideological move toward a celebration of linguistic and cultural hybridity.
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherAmerican Anthropological Association
dc.titleBilingual Humor, Verbal Hygiene, and the Gendered Contradictions of Cultural Citizenship in Early Mexican American Comedy
dc.typeArticle
kusw.kuauthorHaney, Peter C.
kusw.kudepartmentLatin American Studies
kusw.oastatusfullparticipation
dc.identifier.doi10.1525/jlin.2003.13.2.163
kusw.oaversionScholarly/refereed, author accepted manuscript
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