By Dianna C Niebylski
Contextualizing theoretical debates in regards to the political makes use of of gendered humor and feminine extra, this e-book explores daring new ways that a couple of modern Latin American ladies authors process questions of id and neighborhood. the writer examines the connections between strategic makes use of of humor, women’s our bodies, and resistance in works of fiction via Laura Esquivel, Ana Lydia Vega, Luisa Valenzuela, Armon?a Somers, and Alicia Borinsky. She exhibits how the interarticulation of the comedian and comic-grotesque imaginative and prescient with types of over the top woman our bodies may end up in new configurations of girl subjectivity.
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Carlos Monsiváis zeroes in on this point with characteristic acuity when he reflects on the no-holds-barred excess typical of the Mexican film industry when approaching melodrama as a cinematic genre. 15 As regards excesses in plot and style, Como agua para chocolate is no match for the outrageous Manichaeism, fantastic mysticism, or cheap sentimentality of the popular models it imitates. What is more, it is entirely plausible that given the extravagantly sentimental rhetoric of Mexican cinematic melodrama, Mexican popular song, and Mexican telenovelas, critics like Mary Ann Doane would need to envision a completely different register of “fantastic, literally incredible” examples of parodic exaggeration.
There . . pure comedy flourishes” (32). Although they were argued CHALLENGING HUMOR THEORY WITH THE “HUMORED” BODY 21 persuasively and passionately, Meredith’s views were soon overshadowed by Darwinian and Spencerian evolutionary explanations of laughter. Although neither devoted too much time to laughter, both Darwin and Spencer looked at laughter as an instinctive survival mechanism, one more developed in the male than in the female of the species. Bergson and Freud, whose seminal new theories of humor at the beginning of the twentieth century would also focus—albeit from very different perspectives—on the importance of laughter as a defense mechanism, but neither paid much attention to women as subjects of humor.
12 Although Freud’s biological and historical prejudices 22 HUMORING RESISTANCE keep him from making more of the potentially liberating ways in which humor might free women from their anxieties and repressions, his theories linking aggression to humor, and humor with social transgression and psychic release, have provided many women theorists and critics with an important basis for recognizing women’s more hostile and less easily identifiable expressions of humor. In the first half of the twentieth century, Mikhael Bakhtin played a crucial role in humor theory when he noted the need to give the body its due in the production of humor.