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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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| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- 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?
- 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