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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... laughter , or the comedy of decline : Ronald Searle's critique of postwar Englishness in The Rake's Progress 131 III . Ethnic cabaret - A license to laugh ? MITA BANERJEE : Queer laughter : Shyam Selvadurai's Funny Boy and the normative ...
... laughter , or the comedy of decline : Ronald Searle's critique of postwar Englishness in The Rake's Progress 131 III . Ethnic cabaret - A license to laugh ? MITA BANERJEE : Queer laughter : Shyam Selvadurai's Funny Boy and the normative ...
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Laughter and the Postcolonial Susanne Reichl, Mark Stein. VIII ASTRID FELLNER / KLAUS HEISSENBERGER : ' I was born in East L.A. ' : Humour and the displacement of nationality and ethnicity 161 CHRISTIANE SCHLOTE : ' The sketch's the ...
Laughter and the Postcolonial Susanne Reichl, Mark Stein. VIII ASTRID FELLNER / KLAUS HEISSENBERGER : ' I was born in East L.A. ' : Humour and the displacement of nationality and ethnicity 161 CHRISTIANE SCHLOTE : ' The sketch's the ...
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... laugh . As you know , nothing kills the laugh quicker than to explain a joke . I intend to explain all jokes , and the proper and logical outcome will be , not only that you will not laugh now , but that you will never laugh again . So ...
... laugh . As you know , nothing kills the laugh quicker than to explain a joke . I intend to explain all jokes , and the proper and logical outcome will be , not only that you will not laugh now , but that you will never laugh again . So ...
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... laughter in post- colonial cultural production – with dust jackets featuring tags such as 'lorry load[s] of laughs as East meets West,'1 cultural criticism, in stark opposition to such simplifications, has remained virtually silent on ...
... laughter in post- colonial cultural production – with dust jackets featuring tags such as 'lorry load[s] of laughs as East meets West,'1 cultural criticism, in stark opposition to such simplifications, has remained virtually silent on ...
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... laughter. and. the. postcolonial. Theories of laughter abound. They are as mottled and date back almost as far as the object they seek to define; nevertheless, they present an unruly and discordant range, with plenty of contradiction and ...
... laughter. and. the. postcolonial. Theories of laughter abound. They are as mottled and date back almost as far as the object they seek to define; nevertheless, they present an unruly and discordant range, with plenty of contradiction 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