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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... Rake's Progress 131 III . Ethnic cabaret - A license to laugh ? MITA BANERJEE : Queer laughter : Shyam Selvadurai's Funny Boy and the normative as comic 149 VIII ASTRID FELLNER / KLAUS HEISSENBERGER : ' I was Contents.
... Rake's Progress 131 III . Ethnic cabaret - A license to laugh ? MITA BANERJEE : Queer laughter : Shyam Selvadurai's Funny Boy and the normative as comic 149 VIII ASTRID FELLNER / KLAUS HEISSENBERGER : ' I was Contents.
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... ethnicity 161 CHRISTIANE SCHLOTE : ' The sketch's the thing wherein we'll catch the conscience of the audience ' : Strategies and pitfalls of ethnic TV comedies in Britain , the United States , and Germany 177 IV . The language of ...
... ethnicity 161 CHRISTIANE SCHLOTE : ' The sketch's the thing wherein we'll catch the conscience of the audience ' : Strategies and pitfalls of ethnic TV comedies in Britain , the United States , and Germany 177 IV . The language of ...
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... ethnic, local, and historical difference.7 Likewise, as we point out above, both laughter and humour require multi-dimensional conceptualisation, and accordingly have been treated in theoretical works with respect to their variability ...
... ethnic, local, and historical difference.7 Likewise, as we point out above, both laughter and humour require multi-dimensional conceptualisation, and accordingly have been treated in theoretical works with respect to their variability ...
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... ethnic humour in the US (38-9). But. seriously: Does. laughter. promote. agency? One uninterrupted debate in the history of humour studies is whether laughter actually makes a difference to the incongruity from which it arises, or whether ...
... ethnic humour in the US (38-9). But. seriously: Does. laughter. promote. agency? One uninterrupted debate in the history of humour studies is whether laughter actually makes a difference to the incongruity from which it arises, or whether ...
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... ethnic jokes and in developmental psychology.14 During proc- esses of identification, laughter that is shared by in-group members wields cohesive powers. The laughter at someone outside the community strength- ens the ties within. In ...
... ethnic jokes and in developmental psychology.14 During proc- esses of identification, laughter that is shared by in-group members wields cohesive powers. The laughter at someone outside the community strength- ens the ties within. In ...
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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