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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... ambivalent as to the identity of the implied reader . Similarly , the contribution by Astrid Fellner and Klaus Heissenberger , which focuses on Richard ' Cheech ' Marin's film I Was Born in East L.A. , draws upon a variety of identities ...
... ambivalent as to the identity of the implied reader . Similarly , the contribution by Astrid Fellner and Klaus Heissenberger , which focuses on Richard ' Cheech ' Marin's film I Was Born in East L.A. , draws upon a variety of identities ...
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... ambivalent meaning. Acts of derision and comic debasement are 'always the other side of praise and celebration ... ambivalence and recalcitrance are useful to the definition of mockery I wish to adopt here. However, the term must ...
... ambivalent meaning. Acts of derision and comic debasement are 'always the other side of praise and celebration ... ambivalence and recalcitrance are useful to the definition of mockery I wish to adopt here. However, the term must ...
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... ambivalence , to temper this accusation . These grand titles are , in fact , picong battle - names . They derive from the collective desire for the calypsonian to establish the scale of his superiority and / or verbal ferocity through ...
... ambivalence , to temper this accusation . These grand titles are , in fact , picong battle - names . They derive from the collective desire for the calypsonian to establish the scale of his superiority and / or verbal ferocity through ...
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... ambivalent moment of negation in the text . It appears in the novel's central scene . This scene replicates some of the defamiliarizing effects of Hamlet's ' The Mousetrap , ' where gesture is preferred over verbal utterance as the ...
... ambivalent moment of negation in the text . It appears in the novel's central scene . This scene replicates some of the defamiliarizing effects of Hamlet's ' The Mousetrap , ' where gesture is preferred over verbal utterance as the ...
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... 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 . Frank Gloversmith . Brighton : Harvester ...
... 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 . Frank Gloversmith . Brighton : Harvester ...
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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