ABSTRACT

We analyze the performances of comics Whitney Cummings, Nikki Glaser, Amy Schumer, and Ali Wong that address topics that patriarchal culture has deemed abject about women’s bodies. These routines destabilize the patriarchal grounds of abjection through what we have termed embodied abject play: the shocking yet humorous re-presentation of bodies and bodily excesses that have been relegated to the margins, repressed, disavowed, or otherwise expelled in the name of stabilizing the symbolic order. By destabilizing the grounds of abjection, abject play creates a space for women to write themselves and their humanity back into the symbolic order.

摘要

我们分析了漫画 Whitney Cummings、Nikki Glaser、Amy Schumer 和 Ali Wong 的表演，这些表演涉及父权文化认为女性身体可耻的话题。这些惯例通过我们所谓的具身卑鄙游戏破坏了父权制卑鄙的基础：令人震惊但幽默的重新呈现身体和过度的身体，这些身体和过度的行为已被置于边缘、压抑、否认或以其他方式以稳定社会的名义驱逐。象征秩序。通过破坏堕落的基础，卑鄙的游戏为女性创造了一个空间，让她们将自己和她们的人性写回到象征秩序中。