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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... picong, in order to formalise the mockery in A House for Mr Biswas and The Dragon Can't Dance as a project of enlarging the space for Caribbean self-representation. For Ilona it is unsettling forms of humour, such as derision and ...
... picong, in order to formalise the mockery in A House for Mr Biswas and The Dragon Can't Dance as a project of enlarging the space for Caribbean self-representation. For Ilona it is unsettling forms of humour, such as derision and ...
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... picong – a Spanish derived term for an ironic , ego - bashing verbal encounter between mutual adversaries . It is a strategy that unsettles and 1 I paraphrase Franklin W. Knight and Colin A. Palmer's view that , ' [ a ] t all levels of ...
... picong – a Spanish derived term for an ironic , ego - bashing verbal encounter between mutual adversaries . It is a strategy that unsettles and 1 I paraphrase Franklin W. Knight and Colin A. Palmer's view that , ' [ a ] t all levels of ...
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... Picong ― There is a long tradition of playful mockery in Trinidadian culture . It informs the reputation Trinidad has for its humour . This is a humour noted for being able to ' humble ' and ' brutalize ' as well as ' heighten enjoyment ...
... Picong ― There is a long tradition of playful mockery in Trinidadian culture . It informs the reputation Trinidad has for its humour . This is a humour noted for being able to ' humble ' and ' brutalize ' as well as ' heighten enjoyment ...
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... picong ' element of the Trinidad - based musical form of the calypso . The word picong is itself derived from the Spanish adjective picόn ( meaning mocking or huffing ) and , in Trinidad , is often used in its adverbial sense ( Allsopp ...
... picong ' element of the Trinidad - based musical form of the calypso . The word picong is itself derived from the Spanish adjective picόn ( meaning mocking or huffing ) and , in Trinidad , is often used in its adverbial sense ( Allsopp ...
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... picong performance . These features also form the starting - point in both texts for a reassessment of the value of experiences of historical change and social plurality in Trinidadian society . ' The Mighty Biswas ' Biswas is a text ...
... picong performance . These features also form the starting - point in both texts for a reassessment of the value of experiences of historical change and social plurality in Trinidadian society . ' The Mighty Biswas ' Biswas is a text ...
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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