Comic Lives

Comic Lives examines the dynamic intersection of life narrative and comedy within the theoretical and methodological frameworks of auto/biography studies. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue in a/b: Auto/Biography Studies.

Autorentext

Laurie McNeill is Professor of Teaching in the Department of English at the University of British Columbia. She is co-author (with Sonja Boon, Candida Rifkind, and Julie Rak) of The Routledge Introduction to Auto/biography in Canada (2022), and co-editor, with Kate Douglas, of Teaching Lives: Contemporary Pedagogies of Life Narratives (Routledge, 2017), and, with John David Zuern, Online Lives 2.0, a special issue of the journal Biography (2015).

John David Zuern is Professor of English at the University of Hawai'i at M noa and a co-editor of Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly. His work on auto/biography has appeared in a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, European Journal of Life Writing, and Life Writing. With Laurie McNeill, he is co-editor of Online Lives 2.0, a special issue of Biography.

Klappentext

Comic Lives examines the dynamic intersection of life narrative and comedy within the theoretical and methodological frameworks of auto/biography studies. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue in a/b: Auto/Biography Studies.

Inhalt

Introduction - A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to This Issue: Comedy and Life Narratives 1. Generous Laughs: The Comedic Plentitude of Maria Bamford 2. Confronting Apartheid's Revenants: Trevor Noah's Born a Crime and/as Traumedy 3. No Joke, This Actually Happened: A Not Unfunny Interview with Danielle Seid 4. Okay to Laugh? Trauma, Memoir, and Teaching the Podcast Mum Says My Memoir Is a Lie 5. Getting the Joke: Self -Deprecating Humor in Anh Do's The Happiest Refugee 6. Consequences of Laughter: Reflections on Performing Comedic Self-Deprecation and Reacting to Deprecation in General