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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... a need, a desire, for release. This aspect lends itself to comparison with other, similarly unequal. 10 See, among others, the work of Bergson, Freud, and Koestler. 11 We will deal with Cixous in more detail in Introduction 9.
... a need, a desire, for release. This aspect lends itself to comparison with other, similarly unequal. 10 See, among others, the work of Bergson, Freud, and Koestler. 11 We will deal with Cixous in more detail in Introduction 9.
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... Cixous in her 'Le Rire de la Méduse' (1975) has analysed the space that female laughter can map out in a patriarchal world.11 Histories of groups which have suffered from power imbalance and addressed it (but not structurally resolved ...
... Cixous in her 'Le Rire de la Méduse' (1975) has analysed the space that female laughter can map out in a patriarchal world.11 Histories of groups which have suffered from power imbalance and addressed it (but not structurally resolved ...
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... Cixous claims that the power of the Medusa is one of solidarity, by deriding and thus excluding masculinity. The same argument can be found in dis- cussions of ethnic jokes and in developmental psychology.14 During proc- esses of ...
... Cixous claims that the power of the Medusa is one of solidarity, by deriding and thus excluding masculinity. The same argument can be found in dis- cussions of ethnic jokes and in developmental psychology.14 During proc- esses of ...
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... Cixous's work through a contemporary critical lens , finding both wanting due to their focus on either the element of aggression or that of liberation as inherent in laughter . Bhabha's theory of the stereotype seems to resolve this ...
... Cixous's work through a contemporary critical lens , finding both wanting due to their focus on either the element of aggression or that of liberation as inherent in laughter . Bhabha's theory of the stereotype seems to resolve this ...
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... Cixous , Hélène . ' The Laugh of the Medusa . ' 1975. Trans . Keith and Paul Cohen . Feminisms : An Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism . Ed . Robyn Warhol and Diane Price Herndl . New Brunswick , NJ : Rutgers UP , 1997. 347-62 ...
... Cixous , Hélène . ' The Laugh of the Medusa . ' 1975. Trans . Keith and Paul Cohen . Feminisms : An Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism . Ed . Robyn Warhol and Diane Price Herndl . New Brunswick , NJ : Rutgers UP , 1997. 347-62 ...
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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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accent Ali G ambivalence analysis Arjie Asian Atuk audience Bakhtin Bhabha Biswas Black British Born in East Britain Bruce Camagu Canadian Caribbean caricature cartoon characters Chicano Christopher Cixous colonial discourse comedy comic contemporary context criticism cultural derision East L.A. English essay ethnic example fact fiction film Freud function funny Hamlet heteronormative identity immigrants incongruity Indian intercultural joke Kureishi language laugh laughter Lily linguistic literary literature London Madam & Eve Meera Syal mimicry mocked mockery Moonlite Mordecai Richler narrative narrator Native American novel parody perspective picong play political postcolonial postcolonial literature postcolonial texts protagonists queer Rake's Progress reader reference representation Richler ridicule role Routledge Rudy Rushdie Satanic Verses satire Searle's sense Singh-Toor sitcom situation social society Sour Sweet South African stereotypes story strategy studies subversive television Terkessidis texts Timothy Mo tradition trickster Twentyman Vizenor woman writing