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The Forgotten Pioneer: Jean Carroll and the Jewish Female Origins of Stand-Up Comedy

Description:

Although Jewish studies, sociology, and performance studies texts abound with productive scholarship on Jewish men and their contributions to comedy in the mid-century United States, there is remarkably scant attention devoted to the equally significant contributions of their female counterparts. Nowhere is that bias clearer than the peculiar case of...

Keyword:

Assimilation, Jewishness, Gender, Comedy, Stand-up, and Performance

Subject:

Judaic studies, Theater history, and American studies

Creator:

Overbeke, Grace Kessler

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

02/12/2020

Date Created:

2019-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Alternate Identifier:

etdadmin_upload_662614 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14648