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Stand-up Comedy in Africa Humour in Popular Languages and Media.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
Ibidem Verlag,
2022.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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