1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910716175203321

Titolo

Agnes De Jardins. April 28, 1926. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : [U.S. Government Printing Office], , 1926

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (3 pages)

Collana

House report / 69th Congress, 1st session. House ; ; no. 1026

[United States congressional serial set ] ; ; [serial no. 8537]

Altri autori (Persone)

SweetThaddeus C. <1872-1928> (Republican (NY))

Soggetti

Ammunition

Claims

Defense contracts

Defense industries

Explosions

Factories

Government contractors

Industrial accidents

Industrial safety

Legislative amendments

Medical care

Mentally ill

Legislative materials.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

A variant spelling of claimant's name is found in this publication. Reference to H.R. "1602" in text printed in error; correct bill number is "1692."

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2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910795743703321

Titolo

Stand-up comedy in Africa / / Izuu Nwankwọ, editor ; with a foreword by Ebenezer Obadare

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stuttgart : , : Ibidem Verlag, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

3-8382-7608-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (319 pages)

Disciplina

792.76

Soggetti

Stand-up comedy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction: Old Wine in a New Bottle: Stand-up Comedy and its Dispersal across Africa -- Part I Resisting and Reinventing the Status Quo -- Chapter 1 Confronting Racism and Colonialism in Cécile Djunga's and Trevor Noah's Stand-up Comedy -- Chapter 2 South African Vernacular Stand-Up Comedy as Performative Resistance -- Chapter 3 The People's Joker: The Popularity of Mr Jokes' Stand-up Comedy in Malawi -- Chapter 4 Resisting Shame and the Male Gaze: Humour Evocations in the Acts of Noha Kato and Real Warri Pikin -- Chapter 5 Discourse and Humour Strategies in Two-Person Stand-up Art in Nigeria -- Part II Circumventing Censorship and Taboo -- Chapter 6 In the Shadow of the 1994 Genocide: Arthur Nkusi and Stand-up Comedy in Rwanda -- Chapter 7 The Afterlife of Ugandan Stand-up Comedy: Examining the Multiple Roles and Jocular Devices of Teacher Mpamire -- Chapter 8 Scripted and Non-Scripted Humour in Stand-up Comedy: Techniques of Egypt's Comedian Ali Quandil -- Chapter 9 Reinventing Taboo in Kenyan Stand-up Comedy -- Part III Mechanics of being a Comedian -- Chapter 10 Africa on the British Stage: Laughter-Making Mechanics of Andi Osho and Daliso Chaponda -- Chapter 11 There's No Such Thing as 'Too Soon' Here: Taking Stock of South Africa's Comedy Boom -- Chapter 12 The Many-Sides of Kenyan Stand-up Comedy: A Stylistic Interrogation of the Acts of Jemutai, Professor Hamo and Oga Obinna -- Chapter 13 Nigeria's The



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