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1	Özz Nûjens ståuppkomik som diskursiv praktik: Humor, PK och självmotsägelser Connor Jutterstedt, Emelie January 2017 (has links) Humour has for a long time been regarded as something unproblematic that in general shouldn’t be taken seriously, and humour research has mainly focused its positive functions and effects. However, humour is indeed a social and discursive practise that, just like others, have social implications. The aim of this essay is, informed by an intersectional perspective, to problematize and critically examine stand-up comedy as discursive practise and to make visible how humour build upon dominating discourses in society. The aim is also to examine the self-contradictory dimension of the jokes. In a critical discourse analysis of Özz Nûjen’s show Dålig stämning (2013), using PC (political correctness) as an overall analytical framework, the analytical categories ‘women’ as well as ‘ethnicity and culture’ are focused. My conclusion is that in all cases of Nûjen’s prerogative of interpretation, ‘stupidity’, as the lowest common denominator, sticks to symbols, bodies and phenomenon that are associated with something deviant or negative. By what is not expressed, a white, normative Swedish PC-identity is constructed as the abstract, preferable subject. Nûjen’s stand-up comedy, i.a. in expressions of self-contradiction, proves to mainly reinforce social norms. Consequently, negative preconceptions and biased representations of reality are cemented. Though Nûjen does contribute to sociocultural change to some extent, the elaborations of the jokes in most cases prove to sustain the social order. A renegotiation of identities is therefore made strictly limited. However, in one case, Nûjen does challenge the notion of identities as fixed and essential, when renegotiating the master status and construction of “The ethnical Other woman”. Stand-up comedy PC political correctness humor discourse discourse practice social practice intersectionality women ethnicity culture racism homophobia stickiness affective economies Critical humour studies critical discourse analysis Ståuppkomik PK politisk korrekthet humor diskurs diskurspraktik social praktik intersektionalitet kvinnor etnicitet kultur rasism homofobi klibbighet affektekonomier Critical humour studies kritisk diskursanalys Gender Studies Genusstudier

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