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Cheeky Fictions : Laughter and the Postcolonial / / edited by Susanne Reichl, Mark Stein
| Cheeky Fictions : Laughter and the Postcolonial / / edited by Susanne Reichl, Mark Stein |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden; ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2005 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (324 p.) |
| Disciplina | 809/.917 |
| Collana | Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft |
| Soggetto topico |
Comic, The, in literature
Laughter in literature Postcolonialism in literature |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
94-012-0293-1
1-4237-9120-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Susanne REICHL/Mark STEIN: Introduction -- I. Laughter's double vision - Humour and cultural ambiguity -- Ulrike ERICHSEN: Smiling in the face of adversity: How to use humour to defuse cultural conflict -- Anthony ILONA: 'Laughing through the tears': Mockery and self-representation in V.S. Naipaul's A House for Mr Biswas and Earl Lovelace's The Dragon Can't Dance -- Virginia RICHTER: Laughter and aggression: Desire and derision in a postcolonial context -- Helga RAMSEY-KURZ: Humouring the terrorists or the terrorised? Militant Muslims in Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith, and Hanif Kureishi -- II. Traditions and transgressions - Writing back and forth -- Heinz ANTOR: Postcolonial laughter in Canada: Mordecai Richler's The Incomparable Atuk -- Susan LEVER: The colonizer's gift of cursing: Satire in David Foster's Moonlite -- Michael MEYER: Swift and Sterne revisited: Postcolonial parodies in Rushdie and Singh-Toor -- Detlef GOHRBANDT: After-laughter, or the comedy of decline: Ronald Searle's critique of postwar Englishness in The Rake's Progress -- III. Ethnic cabaret - A license to laugh? -- Mita BANERJEE: Queer laughter: Shyam Selvadurai's Funny Boy and the normative as comic -- Astrid FELLNER/Klaus HEISSENBERGER: 'I was born in East L.A.': Humour and the displacement of nationality and ethnicity -- Christiane SCHLOTE: 'The sketch's the thing wherein we'll catch the conscience of the audience': Strategies and pitfalls of ethnic TV comedies in Britain, the United States, and Germany -- IV. The language of humour - The humour of language -- Margit OZVALDA: Worlds apart: Schools in postcolonial Indian fiction -- Susanne PICHLER: Interculturality and humour in Timothy Mo's Sour Sweet -- Susanne MÜHLEISEN: What makes an accent funny, and why? Black British Englishes and humour televised -- V. Laughing it off - Does therapeutic humour work? -- Maggie Ann BOWERS: 'Ethnic glue': Humour in Native American literatures -- Annie GAGIANO: Using a comic vision to contend with tragedy: Three unusual African English novels -- Gisela FEURLE: Madam & Eve - Ten Wonderful Years: A cartoon strip and its role in post-apartheid South Africa -- Wendy WOODWARD: Laughing back at the kingfisher: Zakes Mda's The Heart of Redness and postcolonial humour -- Index -- Contributors. |
| Altri titoli varianti | Laughter and the Postcolonial |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451572003321 |
| Leiden; ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2005 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Cheeky Fictions : Laughter and the Postcolonial / / edited by Susanne Reichl, Mark Stein
| Cheeky Fictions : Laughter and the Postcolonial / / edited by Susanne Reichl, Mark Stein |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden; ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2005 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (324 p.) |
| Disciplina | 809/.917 |
| Collana | Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft |
| Soggetto topico |
Comic, The, in literature
Laughter in literature Postcolonialism in literature |
| ISBN |
94-012-0293-1
1-4237-9120-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Susanne REICHL/Mark STEIN: Introduction -- I. Laughter's double vision - Humour and cultural ambiguity -- Ulrike ERICHSEN: Smiling in the face of adversity: How to use humour to defuse cultural conflict -- Anthony ILONA: 'Laughing through the tears': Mockery and self-representation in V.S. Naipaul's A House for Mr Biswas and Earl Lovelace's The Dragon Can't Dance -- Virginia RICHTER: Laughter and aggression: Desire and derision in a postcolonial context -- Helga RAMSEY-KURZ: Humouring the terrorists or the terrorised? Militant Muslims in Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith, and Hanif Kureishi -- II. Traditions and transgressions - Writing back and forth -- Heinz ANTOR: Postcolonial laughter in Canada: Mordecai Richler's The Incomparable Atuk -- Susan LEVER: The colonizer's gift of cursing: Satire in David Foster's Moonlite -- Michael MEYER: Swift and Sterne revisited: Postcolonial parodies in Rushdie and Singh-Toor -- Detlef GOHRBANDT: After-laughter, or the comedy of decline: Ronald Searle's critique of postwar Englishness in The Rake's Progress -- III. Ethnic cabaret - A license to laugh? -- Mita BANERJEE: Queer laughter: Shyam Selvadurai's Funny Boy and the normative as comic -- Astrid FELLNER/Klaus HEISSENBERGER: 'I was born in East L.A.': Humour and the displacement of nationality and ethnicity -- Christiane SCHLOTE: 'The sketch's the thing wherein we'll catch the conscience of the audience': Strategies and pitfalls of ethnic TV comedies in Britain, the United States, and Germany -- IV. The language of humour - The humour of language -- Margit OZVALDA: Worlds apart: Schools in postcolonial Indian fiction -- Susanne PICHLER: Interculturality and humour in Timothy Mo's Sour Sweet -- Susanne MÜHLEISEN: What makes an accent funny, and why? Black British Englishes and humour televised -- V. Laughing it off - Does therapeutic humour work? -- Maggie Ann BOWERS: 'Ethnic glue': Humour in Native American literatures -- Annie GAGIANO: Using a comic vision to contend with tragedy: Three unusual African English novels -- Gisela FEURLE: Madam & Eve - Ten Wonderful Years: A cartoon strip and its role in post-apartheid South Africa -- Wendy WOODWARD: Laughing back at the kingfisher: Zakes Mda's The Heart of Redness and postcolonial humour -- Index -- Contributors. |
| Altri titoli varianti | Laughter and the Postcolonial |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777648403321 |
| Leiden; ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2005 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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