Stand-up comedy in Africa / / Izuu Nwankwọ, editor ; with a foreword by Ebenezer Obadare
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| Titolo: |
Stand-up comedy in Africa / / Izuu Nwankwọ, editor ; with a foreword by Ebenezer Obadare
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| Pubblicazione: | Stuttgart : , : Ibidem Verlag, , [2022] |
| ©2022 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (319 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 792.76 |
| Soggetto topico: | Stand-up comedy |
| Persona (resp. second.): | ObadareEbenezer |
| Nwankwọ EIzuu | |
| 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 Mock News with Pararan: The Poetics of its Punchline -- About the Contributors. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Stand-up comedy in Africa |
| ISBN: | 3-8382-7608-6 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910795743703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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