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Cheeky Fictions : Laughter and the Postcolonial.cSusanne Reichl
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Author: Susanne Reichl
Number of Pages: 314 pages
Published Date: 31 Aug 2005
Publisher: Brill
Publication Country: Leiden, Netherlands
Language: English
ISBN: 9789042019959
File Name: Cheeky.Fictions.Laughter.and.the.Postcolonial.pdf
Download Link: Cheeky Fictions Laughter and the Postcolonial
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Humour is a key feature, laughter a central element, disrespect a vital textual strategy of postcolonial transcultural practice. Devices such as irony, parody, and subversion, can be subsumed under an interventionist stance and have accordingly received some critical attention. But literary and cultural postcolonial criticism has been marked by a restraint verging on the pious towards the wider significance and functions of laughter. This collection transcends such orthodoxies: laughter can constitute an intervention - but it can also function otherwise. The essays collected here take an interest in the strategic use of what can loosely be 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 postcolonial in their complexity. For the first time, then, this collection gathers a group of international specialists in postcolonial transcultural studies to analyse the functions of laughter, the comic and humour in a wide range of cultural texts. Contributors work on texts from Africa, Asia, Australia, North America, the Caribbean, and Britain, reading work by authors such as Zakes Mda, Timothy Mo, VS Naipaul, and Zadie Smith. This interdisciplinary collection is a contribution to both, postcolonial studies and humour theory.
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Cheeky Fictions : Laughter and the Postcolonial.cSusanne Reichl
Author: Susanne Reichl
Number of Pages: 314 pages
Published Date: 31 Aug 2005
Publisher: Brill
Publication Country: Leiden, Netherlands
Language: English
ISBN: 9789042019959
File Name: Cheeky.Fictions.Laughter.and.the.Postcolonial.pdf
Download Link: Cheeky Fictions Laughter and the Postcolonial
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Humour is a key feature, laughter a central element, disrespect a vital textual strategy of postcolonial transcultural practice. Devices such as irony, parody, and subversion, can be subsumed under an interventionist stance and have accordingly received some critical attention. But literary and cultural postcolonial criticism has been marked by a restraint verging on the pious towards the wider significance and functions of laughter. This collection transcends such orthodoxies: laughter can constitute an intervention - but it can also function otherwise. The essays collected here take an interest in the strategic use of what can loosely be 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 postcolonial in their complexity. For the first time, then, this collection gathers a group of international specialists in postcolonial transcultural studies to analyse the functions of laughter, the comic and humour in a wide range of cultural texts. Contributors work on texts from Africa, Asia, Australia, North America, the Caribbean, and Britain, reading work by authors such as Zakes Mda, Timothy Mo, VS Naipaul, and Zadie Smith. This interdisciplinary collection is a contribution to both, postcolonial studies and humour theory.
Read online Cheeky Fictions : Laughter and the Postcolonial Buy Cheeky Fictions : Laughter and the Postcolonial Download and read Cheeky Fictions : Laughter and the Postcolonial ebook, pdf, djvu, epub, mobi, fb2, zip, rar, torrent Download to iPad/iPhone/iOS, B&N nook Cheeky Fictions : Laughter and the Postcolonial