Who's the sucka when self-directed stereotypes cross over ?
1992; Laval University; Volume: 13; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.3406/comin.1992.1594
ISSN1920-7344
Autores Tópico(s)Rhetoric and Communication Studies
ResumoIn her article the author analyzes Keenen Ivory Wayans' discursive and diegetic use of stereotypes in I'm Gonna Git You Sucka in terms of their effect on audience interpretation. The audience is considered, neither inclusively nor exclusively, as naive and ironic and as white and black. Wayans' use of stereotypes in conjunction with parody belongs to a pattern found in work by other subordinate groups, including Hispanics and women, in which the stereotype gets pushed to a ludicrous extreme. Although problematic, the strategy can participate effectively in a subordinate group's struggle over dominant (misrepresentations of its own image and hence in a subordinate group's self-determination of its identity.
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