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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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 |
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| 제목 | Cheeky Fictions: Laughter and the Postcolonial Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495 91권/Internationale Forschungen Zur Allgemeinen Und Vergleichende 91권/Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, ISSN 0929-6999 |
| 편집자 | Susanne Reichl, Mark Stein |
| 도움을 주신 분들 | Susanne Reichl, Mark Stein |
| 에디션 | 일러스트 |
| 발행인 | Rodopi, 2005 |
| ISBN | 9042019956, 9789042019959 |
| 길이 | 315페이지 |
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