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2731-4332 The book offers thoughtful reflection on funny and engaging representations of the diverse, fragmentedcomplexity of UK and Irish identity explored through the intersections of class, ethnicity and gender..978-3-031-23631-0978-3-031-23629-7Series ISSN 2731-4332 Series E-ISSN 2731-4340

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,Introduction: UK and Irish Television Comedy—Representations of Region, Nation, and Identity,hese symbolic boundaries are cultural (Douglas [1975] 1999) and psychological (Freud [1905] 1976), our surprised laughter or smile of recognition provoked by the realisation of the transgression. Stallybrass and White (1986) argue that the transgression of joking is a ‘symbolic struggle’ where there

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