LEADER 02734nam 2200397 450 001 9910795743703321 005 20230109171133.0 010 $a3-8382-7608-6 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7024645 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7024645 035 $a(CKB)24097022400041 035 $a(EXLCZ)9924097022400041 100 $a20230109d2022 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aStand-up comedy in Africa /$fIzuu Nwankwo?, editor ; with a foreword by Ebenezer Obadare 210 1$aStuttgart :$cIbidem Verlag,$d[2022] 210 4$d©2022 215 $a1 online resource (319 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: Nwankw?, Izuu Stand-up Comedy in Africa Berlin : Ibidem Verlag,c2022 327 $aIntro -- 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 Mock News with Pararan: The Poetics of its Punchline -- About the Contributors. 606 $aStand-up comedy 615 0$aStand-up comedy. 676 $a792.76 702 $aObadare$b Ebenezer 702 $aNwankwo? E$b Izuu 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910795743703321 996 $aStand-up comedy in Africa$93807269 997 $aUNINA