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Nice Girls Gone Blue
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This chapter foregrounds a performance ethnography among New York’s Jewish neoburlesque and cabaret spoofs on the Hanukkah circuit from 2011 to 2016. By looking at what the body does to mock and modify stereotypes of the Jewish woman, it frames the ways that performers utilize physical humor to critique harmful images of the unsexy hag, Jewish mother, and Jewish American princess, while posing new identity gags. Yet in performing Otherness from positions of race privilege, Jewish neoburlesquers distance themselves from the very epochs they evoke, securing their status as white women who can presumably put on and take off Otherness at will.
Title: Nice Girls Gone Blue
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This chapter foregrounds a performance ethnography among New York’s Jewish neoburlesque and cabaret spoofs on the Hanukkah circuit from 2011 to 2016.
By looking at what the body does to mock and modify stereotypes of the Jewish woman, it frames the ways that performers utilize physical humor to critique harmful images of the unsexy hag, Jewish mother, and Jewish American princess, while posing new identity gags.
Yet in performing Otherness from positions of race privilege, Jewish neoburlesquers distance themselves from the very epochs they evoke, securing their status as white women who can presumably put on and take off Otherness at will.
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