Reimagining the Future: Comedy and Hope

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In Ramona Mosse & Anna Street (eds.), Genre Transgressions: Dialogues on Tragedy and Comedy. Routledge. pp. 147-164 (2023)
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This wide-ranging conversation explores the potential of comedy to effect social change; the connections and disconnections between comedy and tragedy; the problem of laughter, humor, and ridicule; and the power of feminist humor.

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