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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... Rushdie , Zadie Smith , and Hanif Kureishi 73 II . Traditions and transgressions - Writing back and forth HEINZ ANTOR : Postcolonial laughter in Canada : Mordecai Richler's The Incomparable Atuk 89 SUSAN LEVER : The colonizer's gift of ...
... Rushdie , Zadie Smith , and Hanif Kureishi 73 II . Traditions and transgressions - Writing back and forth HEINZ ANTOR : Postcolonial laughter in Canada : Mordecai Richler's The Incomparable Atuk 89 SUSAN LEVER : The colonizer's gift of ...
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... Rushdie's hilarious verbal exploits , Zadie Smith's multicultural ' lip ' : by different means and to various ends they all provoke laughter . Although the humorous qualities of many postcolonial texts are not to be doubted , so far no ...
... Rushdie's hilarious verbal exploits , Zadie Smith's multicultural ' lip ' : by different means and to various ends they all provoke laughter . Although the humorous qualities of many postcolonial texts are not to be doubted , so far no ...
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... Rushdie , Zadie Smith , and Hanif Kureishi , and , although the terrorist figures are vastly divergent , she isolates a common representational strategy : whilst terrorist characters are ridiculed , humour is established as anti ...
... Rushdie , Zadie Smith , and Hanif Kureishi , and , although the terrorist figures are vastly divergent , she isolates a common representational strategy : whilst terrorist characters are ridiculed , humour is established as anti ...
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... Rushdie's ' Yorick ' already in its title makes obvious the intertextual connection to Shakespeare's Hamlet via Sterne's Tristram Shandy . In how far are postcolonial and postmodern texts indebted to their British antecedents , in how ...
... Rushdie's ' Yorick ' already in its title makes obvious the intertextual connection to Shakespeare's Hamlet via Sterne's Tristram Shandy . In how far are postcolonial and postmodern texts indebted to their British antecedents , in how ...
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... Rushdie . New York : Routledge , 2003 . Beattie , James . Essays . On Poetry and Music , As They Affect the Mind . On Laughter and Ludicrous Composition . On the Utility of Classical Learning . William Creech : Edinburgh , 1776 . Benson ...
... Rushdie . New York : Routledge , 2003 . Beattie , James . Essays . On Poetry and Music , As They Affect the Mind . On Laughter and Ludicrous Composition . On the Utility of Classical Learning . William Creech : Edinburgh , 1776 . Benson ...
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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