Maggie Hennefeld is Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, and author of Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes.
Nicholas Sammond is Associate Professor of Cinema Studies at the University of Toronto and author of Birth of an Industry: Blackface Minstrelsy and the Rise of American Animation, also published by Duke University Press.

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction. Not It, or, The Abject Objection / Maggie Hennefeld and Nicholas Sammond  1
1. The Politics of Abjection / Sylvère Lotringer  33
Part I. Abject Performances: Subjectivity, Identity, Individuality
2. Popular Abjection and Gendered Embodiment in South Korean Film Comedy / Michelle Cho  43
3. Precarious-Girl Comedy: Issa Rae, Lena Dunham, and Abjection Aesthetics / Rebecca Wanzo  64
4. Abject Feminism, Grotesque Comedy, and Apocalyptic Laughter on Inside Amy Schumer / Maggie Hennefeld  86
Part II. Abject Bodies: Humans, Animals, Objects
5. The Animal and the Animalistic: China's Late 1950s Socialist Satirical Comedy / Yiman Wang  115
6. Anticolonial Folly and the Reversals of Repatriation / Rijuta Mehta  140
7. Between Technology and Toy: The Talking Doll as Abject Artifact / Meredith A. Bak  164
8. Absolute Dismemberment: The Burlesque Natural History of Georges Bataille / James Leo Cahill  185
9. Why, an Abject Art / Mark Mulroney  208
Part III. Abject Aesthetics: Structure, Form, System
10. A Matter of Fluids: EC Comics and the Vernacular Abject / Nicholas Sammond  217
11. Spit * Light * Spunk: Larry Clark, an Aesthetic of Frankness / Eugenie Brinkema  243
12. A Series of Ugly Feelings: Fabulation and Abjection in Sh¿jo Manga / Thomas Lamarre  268
13. Powers of Comedy, or, The Abject Dialectics of Louie / Rob King  291
Contributors  321
Index

Margaret Hennefeld and Nicholas Sammond, editors