Amanda Lynch Morris

1 article
  1. Native American Stand-Up Comedy: Epideictic Strategies in the Contact Zone
    Abstract

    Contemporary Native American stand-up comedy is a form of epideictic rhetoric in the contact zone of the performance space, using generic conventions of stand-up comedy, traditional elements of Native humor, and Aristotelian strategies to challenge what audiences think they know about indigenous experiences in this land. Specifically, Howie Miller is one Native American stand-up comedian who constructs an epideictic performance in which entertainment, education, and assumptions collide.

    doi:10.1080/07350198.2011.530108