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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... society brings forth cultural products that express a comic vision.9 The specificities of this vision, though, are what divide individual societies. Hence our focus on specific manifes- tations. This understanding of the dynamics of ...
... society brings forth cultural products that express a comic vision.9 The specificities of this vision, though, are what divide individual societies. Hence our focus on specific manifes- tations. This understanding of the dynamics of ...
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... society employs to establish and stabilise its identity: in one society, the predominant form of laughter can be that which aims from the site of the ideological or power centre at what is to be marginalised or excluded altogether; in ...
... society employs to establish and stabilise its identity: in one society, the predominant form of laughter can be that which aims from the site of the ideological or power centre at what is to be marginalised or excluded altogether; in ...
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... society within which it is employed (Provine: 13). Freud's understanding of the joke as a socially acceptable form of attack (cf. Parkin: 166) also implies its significance within stratified communities. The most affirming evaluation of ...
... society within which it is employed (Provine: 13). Freud's understanding of the joke as a socially acceptable form of attack (cf. Parkin: 166) also implies its significance within stratified communities. The most affirming evaluation of ...
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... society of which they are part . Gohrbandt reads the drawings against the background of the socio - political situation at the end of the British Empire and demonstrates how Searle's humour does not offer an escape from inevitable ...
... society of which they are part . Gohrbandt reads the drawings against the background of the socio - political situation at the end of the British Empire and demonstrates how Searle's humour does not offer an escape from inevitable ...
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... . Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1972. Mulkay, Michael. On Humour: Its Nature and Its Place in Modern Society. Cambridge: Basil Blackwell, 1988. Oring, Elliott, ed. Humor and the Individual. Spec. issue of Introduction 21.
... . Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1972. Mulkay, Michael. On Humour: Its Nature and Its Place in Modern Society. Cambridge: Basil Blackwell, 1988. Oring, Elliott, ed. Humor and the Individual. Spec. issue of Introduction 21.
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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