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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... Satire in David Foster's Moonlite MICHAEL MEYER : Swift and Sterne revisited : Postcolonial parodies in Rushdie and Singh - Toor 107 117 DETLEF GOHRBANDT : After - laughter , or the comedy of decline : Ronald Searle's critique of ...
... Satire in David Foster's Moonlite MICHAEL MEYER : Swift and Sterne revisited : Postcolonial parodies in Rushdie and Singh - Toor 107 117 DETLEF GOHRBANDT : After - laughter , or the comedy of decline : Ronald Searle's critique of ...
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... satire,' the latter differentiated into various postcolonial regions. These entries support our view that not enough theoretical work has been done and that there is a great deal of disagreement as to what should be categorised as ...
... satire,' the latter differentiated into various postcolonial regions. These entries support our view that not enough theoretical work has been done and that there is a great deal of disagreement as to what should be categorised as ...
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... satire, refers to this common characteristic of humour and postcolonial models as 'non- accommodating power dynamics' (4), i.e. as a fundamental power imbalance. While the complex postcolonial relationships between centre and margin (or ...
... satire, refers to this common characteristic of humour and postcolonial models as 'non- accommodating power dynamics' (4), i.e. as a fundamental power imbalance. While the complex postcolonial relationships between centre and margin (or ...
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... satire and subversion in many postcolonial texts, laughter goes beyond the function of addressing the (erstwhile) colonial power. First, laughter is not always used as weapon; it can perform a conciliatory function, constitute an ...
... satire and subversion in many postcolonial texts, laughter goes beyond the function of addressing the (erstwhile) colonial power. First, laughter is not always used as weapon; it can perform a conciliatory function, constitute an ...
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... satire not so much in the aggressive Juvenal tradition as in the more benevolent satire of Horace and Fielding . He links the national quest for identity in 1960s Canada with the multi - layered satire of Atuk . The essay demonstrates ...
... satire not so much in the aggressive Juvenal tradition as in the more benevolent satire of Horace and Fielding . He links the national quest for identity in 1960s Canada with the multi - layered satire of Atuk . The essay demonstrates ...
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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