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Humour and politics in Africa : beyond resistance /
This book examines the relationship between humour and politics in Africa. Moving beyond the idea of humour as a mode of resistance, the book investigates the 'political work' that humour does and explores the complex entanglements in which the politics, practices and performances of humou...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol, UK :
Bristol University Press,
2023.
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| Colección: | Bristol shorts research.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Humour and politics in Africa : |b beyond resistance / |c Daniel Hammett, Laura S. Martin, Izuu Nwankwọ. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Front Cover -- Humour and Politics in Africa: Beyond Resistance -- Copyright information -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- About the Authors -- Acknowledgements -- Preamble: Have You Heard the One about the Three Academics? -- ONE Humour and Politics in Africa -- A history of humour in Africa -- Humorous contexts: identity and space -- Humour and politics: a brief overview -- TWO Multiple For(u)ms of Resistance -- Mbembe and resistance -- Something funny happened on the way to resistance and power -- Why the em-farce-is on resistance? -- States, hierarchies and agency at play | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Humour as coping and (political) self-reflexivity -- Humour as meaning-making and social commentary -- Humour in taboo-breaking and awareness-raising roles -- THREE Beyond the Symbolic -- No laughing matter: humour and/as violence -- Ambiguities in the power of humour -- Stripping power? -- Peaceful laughter -- Pacifying humour -- Knock, knock: who's there? -- The emperor's old clothes? -- The punchline ... -- FOUR Between Jokes -- Defining silence -- Silence as action -- Jokes and silences at play in African politics -- Have you heard the one about ... *silence*? -- FIVE The Last Laugh? | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Changing targets? -- Notes -- two Multiple For(u)ms of Resistance: Humour, Agency and Power -- three Beyond the Symbolic: Humour in Action -- four Between Jokes: Silence and Ambiguities within Humour -- References -- Index | |
| 520 | |a This book examines the relationship between humour and politics in Africa. Moving beyond the idea of humour as a mode of resistance, the book investigates the 'political work' that humour does and explores the complex entanglements in which the politics, practices and performances of humour are located. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 04, 2023). | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-162) and index. | ||
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| 700 | 1 | |a Nwankwọ E., Izuu, |e author. | |
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