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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... politics and aesthetics, and our location and current state of mind. From early enquiries into laughter to more ... political discussion can be approached, have maintained currency. On this and many other levels, as this collection ...
... politics and aesthetics, and our location and current state of mind. From early enquiries into laughter to more ... political discussion can be approached, have maintained currency. On this and many other levels, as this collection ...
7 페이지
... political condition. This balance is eminently suitable for an investigation into laughter in postcolonial fiction and film, and we find this best expressed as 'connectedness across difference.' The key term characterising our approach ...
... political condition. This balance is eminently suitable for an investigation into laughter in postcolonial fiction and film, and we find this best expressed as 'connectedness across difference.' The key term characterising our approach ...
8 페이지
... political, economical, and cultural conditions which obtain or did obtain – in some cases, long ago, and in others even today – but whose impact can, in any case, still be perceived today. The postcolonial therefore is characterised by ...
... political, economical, and cultural conditions which obtain or did obtain – in some cases, long ago, and in others even today – but whose impact can, in any case, still be perceived today. The postcolonial therefore is characterised by ...
10 페이지
... political and social transformation comes from the above-mentioned Cixous: For her, the triumphant laugh of the Medusa is liberating, joyful, and redeeming: Our glances, our smiles, are spent; laughs exude from all our mouths; our blood ...
... political and social transformation comes from the above-mentioned Cixous: For her, the triumphant laugh of the Medusa is liberating, joyful, and redeeming: Our glances, our smiles, are spent; laughs exude from all our mouths; our blood ...
11 페이지
... political situation in which laughter is engendered . Especially the contributions in section five address this question in more detail . Once again we are faced with the indeterminacy of humour , but rather than resign ourselves to the ...
... political situation in which laughter is engendered . Especially the contributions in section five address this question in more detail . Once again we are faced with the indeterminacy of humour , but rather than resign ourselves to the ...
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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