Стендап в современной массовой культуре отдельных стран постсоветского ареала. II. Женщина в психологической оптике комичного
Stand-up comedy in contemporary mass culture of individual countries of the post-Soviet area. II. Woman in the psychological optics of comedy

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses female stand-up comedy in the post-Soviet space and the ways in which it reflects women's perceptions of feminine and masculine. Stand-up is an open platform for frank talking about everyday and intimate topics, as well as topics previously tabooed, such as sex, sexism, and harassment. The most resonant topics of the current and previous year (family, relationships, sex, sexism, harassment) are examined. The conditional female image composed by female comedians in the format 'a woman about herself and her problems' shows that many sketches cannot be strictly categorized into one thematic direction, as several themes are inextricably linked in them. Sex and sexuality seen through a woman's eyes and voiced through a woman's mouth is the new thing that stand-up comedy has brought in the last decade. The structure of the stand-up comedy speech canvas includes linguistic and extra-linguistic means, many stylistic figures such as antithesis, hyperbole, irony and self-irony, euphemism.

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