The text that I have chosen for my final paper is “Bossypants” by Tina Fey. What interests me about this book is the humorous language that Fey uses to discuss her relatable and sometimes awkward life experiences. What makes me excited about analyzing this book, is picking apart the jokes and figuring out what Fey’s meaning is behind them; is Tina Fey making points about feminism and fad haircuts to be funny or is she disguising some other alternate feeling behind the joke, whether it is at herself or others? This is also part of my thesis for the paper; “How is Fey’s humor used to point out the incongruities pertaining to women’s looks in society?” and “How does her self-depreciating humor relate to the reader?”. What I have noticed in Fey’s
