SOURCE: “Alice Childress's Like One of the Family: Domestic and Undomesticated Domestic Humor,” in Look Who's Laughing: Gender and Comedy, edited by Gail Finney, Gordon and Breach, 1994, pp. 221-29.
In the following essay, Dresner identifies rebellion as the link between the humor of the white suburban housewife and the African-American domestic worker.
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