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Absurdity in the Statehouse: Burlesque Legislation and the Politics of Rejection

机译:州议会大楼中的荒谬:滑稽的立法和拒绝的政治

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This manuscript analyzes the public debate over legislation designed to mock andreject regulations of abortion in the United States. The bills, such as one in Texasrequiring men to remain abstinent and avoid seminal discharge outside of narrowcircumstances, are intentionally unworkable to critique Targeted Regulation of AbortionProvider (TRAP) laws, and laws regulating access to abortion in the US. I arguethe bills are a form of Burkean burlesque, a novel strategy of humor and biting critiquein the context of the US abortion debate. As that debate is characterized primarily byKenneth Burke’s tragic frame, with a foreclosure of a comic frame, the use of burlesqueis a notable break from the previously established rhetorical landscape. The burlesqueelements of the bill are contextualized against political humor generally and analyzed,with subsequent discussion unpacking the implications and possible pitfalls of thelimited proliferation of burlesque. Ultimately, burlesque is concluded to be situationallyappropriate in responding to the rhetorical constraints of the abortion debate, butpragmatically dangerous by offering legislation that can further polarize both rhetoricsof abortion and individual rhetors.
机译:这份手稿分析了有关旨在嘲笑和拒绝美国堕胎法规的立法的公开辩论。这些法案,例如在得克萨斯州的一项法案,要求男子保持戒酒并避免在狭窄情况下避免精子出院,这些法案在旨在批评《堕胎提供者有针对性的法规》(TRAP)法律以及美国规范堕胎准入法律的情况下是行不通的。我认为这些法案是Burkean滑稽表演的一种形式,在美国堕胎辩论的背景下,这是一种新颖的幽默和尖刻批评的策略。由于这场辩论的主要特点是肯尼思·伯克(Kenneth Burke)的悲剧性框架,加上可笑的框架的取消,因此滑稽表演的使用与先前确立的修辞景观截然不同。总体上对法案的滑稽表演与政治幽默进行了语境化和分析,随后的讨论揭示了滑稽表演有限扩散的含义和可能的陷阱。归根结底,在解决堕胎辩论的言辞限制时,滑稽表演被认为在情境上是适当的,但通过提供可进一步使堕胎言辞和个别言辞两极化的立法,在实用上是危险的。

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