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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2 페이지
... subversive or satiric side of humour and laughter in postcolonial literature.4 But we are at the same time 1 This quotation is taken from the cover of Meera Syal's Anita and Me (1996). 2 3 4 There are no book-length studies of laughter ...
... subversive or satiric side of humour and laughter in postcolonial literature.4 But we are at the same time 1 This quotation is taken from the cover of Meera Syal's Anita and Me (1996). 2 3 4 There are no book-length studies of laughter ...
9 페이지
... subversive laughter, carnivalesque exhilarations, wry smiles, self- deprecation, gallows humour, or black humour, to more conciliatory and healing humour, or to the wild and eerie laughter of the otherwise silenced 'madwoman in the ...
... subversive laughter, carnivalesque exhilarations, wry smiles, self- deprecation, gallows humour, or black humour, to more conciliatory and healing humour, or to the wild and eerie laughter of the otherwise silenced 'madwoman in the ...
12 페이지
... subversive or not, in fact, whether we identify it as laughter or humour in the first place, is largely a consequence of the way we read, the way we understand postcolonial literatures, and the way in which we know and view the world ...
... subversive or not, in fact, whether we identify it as laughter or humour in the first place, is largely a consequence of the way we read, the way we understand postcolonial literatures, and the way in which we know and view the world ...
30 페이지
... subversive function of humour. In Bakhtin's definition of the novel, the carnivalesque and laughter are vital features of the novelistic genre and are primarily seen as liberating reactions to official traditions or ossified ideologies ...
... subversive function of humour. In Bakhtin's definition of the novel, the carnivalesque and laughter are vital features of the novelistic genre and are primarily seen as liberating reactions to official traditions or ossified ideologies ...
32 페이지
... subversive uses of humour.10 I shall begin with a rather straightforward example from Meera Syal's novel Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee (1999). Having described an Indian marriage ceremony in the first chapter, the narrator sums up the ...
... subversive uses of humour.10 I shall begin with a rather straightforward example from Meera Syal's novel Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee (1999). Having described an Indian marriage ceremony in the first chapter, the narrator sums up 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