‘Laughing ourselves out of the closet’: comedy as a queer pedagogical form

IF 0.7 Q3 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH Ethics and Education Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI:10.1080/17449642.2023.2188744
Seán Henry, A. Bryan, Aoife Neary
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ABSTRACT This paper explores comedy as a queer pedagogical form that subverts problematic representational tropes of queerness pervading mainstream depictions of queer experience. Articulating ‘form’ less as a fixed arrangement of characters, images, objects, and ideas, and more as a kind of formation that positions these in dynamic relation to the wider context in which comedies are encountered, we mobilise the idea of queer pedagogical forms to capture how comedy can foster new modes of thinking about and embodying queerness for, and with, audiences. Drawing on specific examples from Schitt’s Creek and Derry Girls, we document the potential of specific comedic modalities (e.g. irony, sarcasm, irreverence, and slapstick) to foster alternative representations of queerness, in which normative tropes are poked fun at, problematised, and reimagined. Through these examples, we demonstrate how comedies can enable us to ‘laugh ourselves out of the closets’ we live by, feel, navigate, and embody.
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“把自己笑出壁橱”:喜剧作为一种奇怪的教学形式
摘要:本文探讨了喜剧作为一种酷儿教学形式,它颠覆了主流酷儿体验描述中普遍存在的酷儿形象比喻。我们将“形式”表达为一种形式,它不是人物、图像、物体和思想的固定排列,而是一种将这些东西与喜剧所处的更广泛背景动态联系起来的形式,我们调动了酷儿教育形式的思想,以捕捉喜剧如何为观众培养思考和体现酷儿的新模式。借鉴Schitt‘s Creek和Derry Girls的具体例子,我们记录了特定喜剧模式(如讽刺、讽刺、无礼和闹剧)的潜力,以培养另类的怪异表现,在这种表现中,规范性的比喻被取笑、质疑和重新想象。通过这些例子,我们展示了喜剧如何使我们能够“从壁橱里笑出来”,感受、驾驭和体现我们的生活。
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