Cheeky Fictions: Laughter and the PostcolonialSusanne Reichl, Mark Stein Rodopi, 2005 - 315페이지 Humour is a key feature, laughter a central element, disrespect a vital textual strategy of postcolonial transcultural practice. Devices such as irony, parody, and subversion, can be subsumed under an interventionist stance and have accordingly received some critical attention. But literary and cultural postcolonial criticism has been marked by a restraint verging on the pious towards the wider significance and functions of laughter. This collection transcends such orthodoxies: laughter can constitute an intervention - but it can also function otherwise. The essays collected here take an interest in the strategic use of what can loosely be termed laughter - in all its manifestations. Examining postcolonial transcultural practice from a range of disciplinary and methodological perspectives, this study seeks to analyse laughter and the postcolonial in their complexity. For the first time, then, this collection gathers a group of international specialists in postcolonial transcultural studies to analyse the functions of laughter, the comic and humour in a wide range of cultural texts. Contributors work on texts from Africa, Asia, Australia, North America, the Caribbean, and Britain, reading work by authors such as Zakes Mda, Timothy Mo, VS Naipaul, and Zadie Smith. This interdisciplinary collection is a contribution to both, postcolonial studies and humour theory. |
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... ( Bhabha 1994 , Ashcroft et al . 2002 ) , and the use of laughter and strategies of un- settling humour contribute to the empowerment of the ( post ) colonised . From a physiological point of view it has been claimed that laughter ...
... ( Bhabha 1994 , Ashcroft et al . 2002 ) , and the use of laughter and strategies of un- settling humour contribute to the empowerment of the ( post ) colonised . From a physiological point of view it has been claimed that laughter ...
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... Bhabha's theory of the stereotype seems to resolve this opposition as it integrates both empowerment and powerlessness . The subsequent analysis of Joe Penhall's play Blue / Orange allows Richter to point out that postcolonial humour ...
... Bhabha's theory of the stereotype seems to resolve this opposition as it integrates both empowerment and powerlessness . The subsequent analysis of Joe Penhall's play Blue / Orange allows Richter to point out that postcolonial humour ...
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... Bhabha's terms, “newness enters the world.” This occurs where there is a breakdown in the semantic determinacy of a sign, [...] where the meaning of text or a sign changes and humour is definitely such a venue.' Jason Stearns ...
... Bhabha's terms, “newness enters the world.” This occurs where there is a breakdown in the semantic determinacy of a sign, [...] where the meaning of text or a sign changes and humour is definitely such a venue.' Jason Stearns ...
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... Bhabha , Homi K. ' Of Mimicry and Man : The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse . ' October 28 ( 1984 ) : 125-33 . ' Representation and the Colonial Text : A Critical Exploration of Some Forms of Mimeticism . ' The Theory of Reading . Ed ...
... Bhabha , Homi K. ' Of Mimicry and Man : The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse . ' October 28 ( 1984 ) : 125-33 . ' Representation and the Colonial Text : A Critical Exploration of Some Forms of Mimeticism . ' The Theory of Reading . Ed ...
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II Traditions and transgressions Writing back and forth | 87 |
III Ethnic cabaret A license to laugh? | 147 |
IV The language of humour The humour of language | 191 |
V Laughing it off Does therapeutic humour work? | 245 |
Index | 301 |
Contributors | 311 |
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