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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... 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 MEYER : Swift and Sterne ...
... 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 MEYER : Swift and Sterne ...
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... writing an introduction such as this one is an exercise fraught with heightened self-consciousness: on the one hand, there are a number of points that we need to state clearly, but on the other, some of them have been propounded again ...
... writing an introduction such as this one is an exercise fraught with heightened self-consciousness: on the one hand, there are a number of points that we need to state clearly, but on the other, some of them have been propounded again ...
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... writers as diverse as Fielding , Thackeray , Kierkegaard , Darwin , and Freud as ' generalists , ' who investigated ... writing on laughter or humour today this leaves two options : either restricting oneself to ' mini - theories ' and ...
... writers as diverse as Fielding , Thackeray , Kierkegaard , Darwin , and Freud as ' generalists , ' who investigated ... writing on laughter or humour today this leaves two options : either restricting oneself to ' mini - theories ' and ...
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... writers have commented on the art of producing humorous fiction and drama.6 Psychological studies of humour were largely ... writing is more concerned with distinguishing between specific postcolonial cultural practices, experiences and ...
... writers have commented on the art of producing humorous fiction and drama.6 Psychological studies of humour were largely ... writing is more concerned with distinguishing between specific postcolonial cultural practices, experiences and ...
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... writer.12 Writing on feminist humour, Gail Finney finds that 'a 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 ...
... writer.12 Writing on feminist humour, Gail Finney finds that 'a 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 ...
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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