Debunking Stereotypes Through Humor:Talk-story and Trickster Figures in Chinese Diasporic Comedies  

作　　者：YU Zhijiu 

机构地区：[1]Brandeis University,The United States

出　　处：《人文与社科亚太学刊》2024年第4期46-60,共15页Asia-Pacific Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

摘　　要：East Asian diasporic comedians living in the US and the UK have always been associated with their racial idenities and,consequendy,either adopt or are forced to adopt racil sterotypes that alienate their performances.As a conoribution to scholarship in Asian diasporic studics,media studies,and humor studies,this paper offers contemporary Chinese diasporic comedies as a case study into how Chinese comedians use these stereotypes to redlaim a voice.Comedians such as Ai Wong,Jinmy O.Yang,and Nigdl Ng can use comnedic mediums such as standup,comedy television scries,and YouTube videos to address racialized East Asian strreotypes,empower the East Asian community through comedic counter:narratives,and educate the non-Asian public about their reality and culture.By doing so,these comedians adopt the inconguity in comedic discourse to demystify the East Asian/Asian American community to represent their current realics and the ones that bclong to the older generation and situate it all in a global and histonical framework.They dcbunk East Asian American sexuality sterotypes by performing the racial mundane.At the same time,they also ridicule these stereatypes through abjection humor or what I call"comedic trickster"figures to potentially challenge the existing power dynamics in the Western world.Instead of ssmiaing the Asian heritages and merging into the dominant white culure,these comics acknowledge their difference and address these racialized sterotypes.

关 键 词：Asian Diaspora Asian American COMEDY HUMOR STEREOTYPES stand-up comedy TELEVISION performance popular culture 

分 类 号：H31[语言文字—英语]