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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... sense of humour ' ) , which are being investigated . Laughter is thus regarded as the re- sponse to a stimulus but also as an effect that is deliberately pursued by a text . Laughter can be elicited by many triggers , and research shows ...
... sense of humour ' ) , which are being investigated . Laughter is thus regarded as the re- sponse to a stimulus but also as an effect that is deliberately pursued by a text . Laughter can be elicited by many triggers , and research shows ...
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... sense. But usages denoting either a body of cultural production from sites historically linked with and informed by colonialism, or denoting a theoretical and ideological position from which any text, any socio-cultural or political ...
... sense. But usages denoting either a body of cultural production from sites historically linked with and informed by colonialism, or denoting a theoretical and ideological position from which any text, any socio-cultural or political ...
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... sense of power is central to the creation of humor, which is in turn empowering' (3). It has been argued that cultural production plays a key role in the relations between coloniser and. 11 We will deal with Cixous in more detail in the ...
... sense of power is central to the creation of humor, which is in turn empowering' (3). It has been argued that cultural production plays a key role in the relations between coloniser and. 11 We will deal with Cixous in more detail in the ...
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... sense of passing cheerfully from the past ('heiter von der Vergangenheit scheiden,' Marx: 382). Secondly, even if subversiveness is detected in laughter, its targets are varied so that it can be directed at colonisers or colonised; it ...
... sense of passing cheerfully from the past ('heiter von der Vergangenheit scheiden,' Marx: 382). Secondly, even if subversiveness is detected in laughter, its targets are varied so that it can be directed at colonisers or colonised; it ...
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... 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 distinguishing individuals ...
... 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 distinguishing individuals ...
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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