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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... characters without being accused of political and / or religious fanaticism themselves . She bases her essay on novels by Salman Rushdie , Zadie Smith , and Hanif Kureishi , and , although the terrorist figures are vastly divergent ...
... characters without being accused of political and / or religious fanaticism themselves . She bases her essay on novels by Salman Rushdie , Zadie Smith , and Hanif Kureishi , and , although the terrorist figures are vastly divergent ...
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... characters in a text or between writer and readership . Margit Ozvalda's contribution on schools in postcolonial fiction investigates the language used in the representation of teachers and pupils . In a postcolonial context , the nexus ...
... characters in a text or between writer and readership . Margit Ozvalda's contribution on schools in postcolonial fiction investigates the language used in the representation of teachers and pupils . In a postcolonial context , the nexus ...
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... characters involved, but also at the South African audience, who see themselves represented. While the cartoon strip is often advertised as uniting South Africa in laughter, Feurle warns against misunderstanding it as a unified vision ...
... characters involved, but also at the South African audience, who see themselves represented. While the cartoon strip is often advertised as uniting South Africa in laughter, Feurle warns against misunderstanding it as a unified vision ...
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... characters huddle in confusion in the face of events that cannot be explained within their frame of reference, the narrative mediation provides hermeneutic guidance through pointing to the existence of two frames of reference: it ...
... characters huddle in confusion in the face of events that cannot be explained within their frame of reference, the narrative mediation provides hermeneutic guidance through pointing to the existence of two frames of reference: it ...
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... characters ' thoughts as well as utterances . This is particularly obvious with regard to Amy Holness's behaviour . Her assessment of Maydene Brassington's plans is very critical , and she fears that Ella O'Grady might be used and ...
... characters ' thoughts as well as utterances . This is particularly obvious with regard to Amy Holness's behaviour . Her assessment of Maydene Brassington's plans is very critical , and she fears that Ella O'Grady might be used and ...
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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