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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... Traditions and transgressions - Writing back and forth HEINZ ANTOR : Postcolonial laughter in Canada : Mordecai Richler's The Incomparable Atuk 89 SUSAN LEVER : The colonizer's gift of cursing : Satire in David Foster's Moonlite MICHAEL ...
... Traditions and transgressions - Writing back and forth HEINZ ANTOR : Postcolonial laughter in Canada : Mordecai Richler's The Incomparable Atuk 89 SUSAN LEVER : The colonizer's gift of cursing : Satire in David Foster's Moonlite MICHAEL ...
14 페이지
... traditions local to the Caribbean, such as calypso and picong, in order to formalise the mockery in A House for Mr Biswas and The Dragon Can't Dance as a project of enlarging the space for Caribbean self-representation. For Ilona it is ...
... traditions local to the Caribbean, such as calypso and picong, in order to formalise the mockery in A House for Mr Biswas and The Dragon Can't Dance as a project of enlarging the space for Caribbean self-representation. For Ilona it is ...
15 페이지
... 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 how Richler performs a ' semiosis of derision ...
... 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 how Richler performs a ' semiosis of derision ...
30 페이지
... traditions or ossified ideologies.8 In this context then, laughter becomes an 'antiforce, and thus begins to display antinomian traits. Bakhtin authorizes the novel to play the same role in literature that carnival is alleged to play in ...
... traditions or ossified ideologies.8 In this context then, laughter becomes an 'antiforce, and thus begins to display antinomian traits. Bakhtin authorizes the novel to play the same role in literature that carnival is alleged to play in ...
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... ( tradition - modernity , colonizer - colonized , elite - masses ) . This evolved complexity defines the particularity of the region and by extension its literature . It also renders each attempt at individuation to be , in the words of ...
... ( tradition - modernity , colonizer - colonized , elite - masses ) . This evolved complexity defines the particularity of the region and by extension its literature . It also renders each attempt at individuation to be , in the words of ...
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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