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Cheeky fictions :

(Number (ISBN

1423791207

(Number (ISBN

9781423791201

Erroneous ISBN

9042019956

Erroneous ISBN

9789042019959

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b746778

Title Proper

Cheeky fictions :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

laughter and the postcolonial /

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Susanne Reichl and Mark Stein.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Amsterdam :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Rodopi,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2005.

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1 online resource (viii, 315 pages) :

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illustrations

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Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft,

Volume Designation

91

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0929-6999 ;

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

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.

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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.

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"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 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."--Jacket.

Title

Cheeky fictions.

International Standard Book Number

9042019956

Comic, The, in literature.

Humor in literature.

Laughter in literature.

Literature and anthropology.

Postcolonialism in literature.

Comique dans la littérature.

Humour dans la littérature.

Littérature et anthropologie.

Postcolonialisme dans la littérature.

Rire dans la littérature.

Comic, The, in literature.

Englisch

Humor

Humor in literature.

Laughter in literature.

LITERARY CRITICISM-- General.

Literature and anthropology.

Postcolonialism in literature.

Postkoloniale Literatur

TRAVEL-- Special Interest-- Literary.

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TRV-- 026090

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20201204065517.0

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[Book]

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