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Cheeky fictions : laughter and the postcolonial /
"The essays collected here take an interest in the strategic use of what can loosely he 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 postcolon...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Rodopi,
2005.
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| Colección: | Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ;
91. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Smiling in the face of adversity: how to use humour to defuse cultural conflict / Ulrike Erichsen
- '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 / Anthony Ilona
- Laughter and aggression: desire and derision in a postcolonial context / Virginia Richter
- Humouring the terrorists or the terrorised? Militant Muslims in Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith, and Hanif Kureishi / Helga Ramsey-Kurz
- Postcolonial laughter in Canada: Mordecai Richler's The incomparable Atuk / Heinz Antor
- The colonizer's gift of cursing: satire in David Foster's Moonlite / Susan Lever
- Swift and Sterne revisited: postcolonial parodies in Rushdie and Singh-Toor / Michael Meyer
- After-laughter, or the comedy of decline: Ronald Searle's critique of postwar Englishness in The rake's progress / Detlef Gohrbandt.
- Queer laughter: Shyam Selvadurai's Funny boy and the normative as comic / Mita Banerjee
- 'I was born in East L.A.': humour and the displacement of nationality and ethnicity / Astrid Fellner/Klaus Heissenberger
- '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 / Christiane Schlote
- Worlds apart: schools in postcolonial Indian fiction / Margit Ozvalda
- Interculturality and humour in Timothy Mo's Sour sweet / Susanne Pichler
- What makes an accent funny, and why? black British Englishes and humour televised / Susanne Mühleisen
- 'Ethnic glue': humour in Native American literatures / Maggie Ann Bowers
- Using a comic vision to contend with tragedy: three unusual African English novels / Annie Gagiano
- Madam & Eve--ten wonderful years: a cartoon strip and its role in post-apartheid South Africa / Gisela Feurle
- Laughing back at the kingfisher: Zakes Mda's The heart of redness and postcolonial humour / Wendy Woodward.