Brooke S. Bocast

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Pagliai, Valentina and Brooke S. Bocast 2005 Singing gender: Contested discourses of womanhood in Tuscan-Italian verbal art Pragmatics 15:4, pp. 437–457 | Article
In this article, we explore the presentation and contestation of discourses of womanhood in verbal art performance. In Tuscan-Italian Contrasto verbal duels the artists, both males and females, may impersonate female characters as they exchange insults between each other. In doing so, they deploy… read more