Abstract
If we seriously want to see ourselves as others see us, then we must come to terms with the role that comic stereotypes play in perpetuat ing preconceptions and prejudices. Though Aristotle in The Poetics defined the Comic as a species of the Ugly lacking the power to harm, much of the comic abuse various groups of human beings gleefully heap upon despised others stems from hurtful and hateful desires to denigrate and belittle. Pursuing the deeper meanings of these archetypal comic themes and images carries us across disciplinary and conceptual boundaries, taking us from the superficially ridiculous to the sublimated dialectic of derision and terror underlying comic stereotyping wherever it is found. Vicious xenophobic humour is truly no laughing matter.
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