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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... social sciences alike . Today , in many fields of research , we observe a turn to detailed examinations in place of grand narratives , to specific analyses in preference to universalising generalisation . Michael Freeman , in a preface ...
... social sciences alike . Today , in many fields of research , we observe a turn to detailed examinations in place of grand narratives , to specific analyses in preference to universalising generalisation . Michael Freeman , in a preface ...
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... 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 flows and we ...
... 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 flows and we ...
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... social contexts . However , within such contexts , humour normally comes to be used to conserve the dominant pattern of social relationships . Humour can be used to challenge existing patterns , as we saw in the case of the women's ...
... social contexts . However , within such contexts , humour normally comes to be used to conserve the dominant pattern of social relationships . Humour can be used to challenge existing patterns , as we saw in the case of the women's ...
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... social and psychological functions, its value as an indicator of both cultural and personal identity – requires this sense of its radical subjectivity, a sense easily confirmed in the experience of telling a joke to an unamused audience ...
... social and psychological functions, its value as an indicator of both cultural and personal identity – requires this sense of its radical subjectivity, a sense easily confirmed in the experience of telling a joke to an unamused audience ...
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... social comedy and the grotesque, achieved through a focus on the materiality of the body. Analysing the feminist and ecological aspects of Mda's humour, Woodward comes to the conclusion that a novel containing a more reconciliatory ...
... social comedy and the grotesque, achieved through a focus on the materiality of the body. Analysing the feminist and ecological aspects of Mda's humour, Woodward comes to the conclusion that a novel containing a more reconciliatory ...
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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