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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... functions of laughter. Occasionally, indi- vidual terms and concepts are mentioned,2 but more sustained critical engagement with laughter and humour is strikingly rare. Why is humour such an uneasy bedfellow, why laughter – apparently ...
... functions of laughter. Occasionally, indi- vidual terms and concepts are mentioned,2 but more sustained critical engagement with laughter and humour is strikingly rare. Why is humour such an uneasy bedfellow, why laughter – apparently ...
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... function of its being incorrectly viewed as a unitary process . ( Chapman and Foot : 4 ) Our own understanding of humour and laughter fully agrees with this latter notion . As Paul Lewis claims in Comic Effects : Interdisciplinary ...
... function of its being incorrectly viewed as a unitary process . ( Chapman and Foot : 4 ) Our own understanding of humour and laughter fully agrees with this latter notion . As Paul Lewis claims in Comic Effects : Interdisciplinary ...
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... function as an adjective to modify laughter. There is no 'postcolonial laughter' in the singular in the first place. It has been amply remarked that 'the postcolonial' cannot easily be reduced to a uniform concept but that it must be ...
... function as an adjective to modify laughter. There is no 'postcolonial laughter' in the singular in the first place. It has been amply remarked that 'the postcolonial' cannot easily be reduced to a uniform concept but that it must be ...
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... functions of humour are plausible . In turn , this gives rise to more general questions about the role of cultural production and agency as such , questions that have been raised in postcolonial studies before and which would by far ...
... functions of humour are plausible . In turn , this gives rise to more general questions about the role of cultural production and agency as such , questions that have been raised in postcolonial studies before and which would by far ...
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... function of addressing the (erstwhile) colonial power. First, laughter is not always used as weapon; it can perform a conciliatory function, constitute an intellectual stimulus, express linguistic finesse, or imply a slightly nostalgic ...
... function of addressing the (erstwhile) colonial power. First, laughter is not always used as weapon; it can perform a conciliatory function, constitute an intellectual stimulus, express linguistic finesse, or imply a slightly nostalgic ...
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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