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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... identity, our politics and aesthetics, and our location and current state of mind. From early enquiries into laughter to more contemporary interdisciplinary approaches, humour theorists have always felt the need to critically redefine ...
... identity, our politics and aesthetics, and our location and current state of mind. From early enquiries into laughter to more contemporary interdisciplinary approaches, humour theorists have always felt the need to critically redefine ...
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... identity: in one society, the predominant form of laughter can be that which aims from the site of the ideological or power centre at what is to be marginalised or excluded altogether; in another, the most significant form of laughter ...
... identity: in one society, the predominant form of laughter can be that which aims from the site of the ideological or power centre at what is to be marginalised or excluded altogether; in another, the most significant form of laughter ...
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... identity – requires this sense of its radical subjectivity, a sense easily confirmed in the experience of telling a joke to an unamused audience. The extent to which we can share humour is based on a common world view, and one way of ...
... identity – requires this sense of its radical subjectivity, a sense easily confirmed in the experience of telling a joke to an unamused audience. The extent to which we can share humour is based on a common world view, and one way of ...
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... identities of their individual members (Anderson: 5-7). If we do not share the requisite cultural references, a joke or pun might be lost on us. Laughter in a Shakespearean play, for example, is not always conclusive to a contemporary ...
... identities of their individual members (Anderson: 5-7). If we do not share the requisite cultural references, a joke or pun might be lost on us. Laughter in a Shakespearean play, for example, is not always conclusive to a contemporary ...
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... identity in 1960s Canada with the multi - layered satire of Atuk . The essay demonstrates how Richler performs a ' semiosis of derision ' in portraying a chain of continuing exploitation between Canadian business corporations and Inuit ...
... identity in 1960s Canada with the multi - layered satire of Atuk . The essay demonstrates how Richler performs a ' semiosis of derision ' in portraying a chain of continuing exploitation between Canadian business corporations and Inuit ...
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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