Cheeky fictions
Subtitle: laughter and the postcolonial
By: edited by Susanne Reichl and Mark Stein.
Contributors: Reichl, Susanne. ed.; Stein, Mark, 1966- ed.
Series: Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft -- 91
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Amsterdam; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
Subjects: Laughter in literature.; Comic, The, in literature.; Postcolonialism in literature.
Other titles: Laughter and the postcolonial
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Smiling in the face of adversity: how to use humour to defuse cultural conflict / Ulrike Erichsen; title: '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; title: Laughter and aggression: desire and derision in a postcolonial context / Virginia Richter; title: Humouring the terrorists or the terrorised? Militant Muslims in Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith, and Hanif Kureishi / Helga Ramsey-Kurz; title: Postcolonial laughter in Canada: Mordecai Richler's The incomparable Atuk / Heinz Antor; title: The colonizer's gift of cursing: satire in David Foster's Moonlite / Susan Lever; title: Swift and Sterne revisited: postcolonial parodies in Rushdie and Singh-Toor / Michael Meyer; title: After-laughter, or the comedy of decline: Ronald Searle's critique of postwar Englishness in The rake's progress / Detlef Gohrbandt.; title: Queer laughter: Shyam Selvadurai's Funny boy and the normative as comic / Mita Banerjee; title: 'I was born in East L.A.': humour and the displacement of nationality and ethnicity / Astrid Fellner/Klaus Heissenberger; title: '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; title: Worlds apart: schools in postcolonial Indian fiction / Margit Ozvalda; title: Interculturality and humour in Timothy Mo's Sour sweet / Susanne Pichler; title: What makes an accent funny, and why? black British Englishes and humour televised / Susanne Mühleisen; title: 'Ethnic glue': humour in Native American literatures / Maggie Ann Bowers; title: Using a comic vision to contend with tragedy: three unusual African English novels / Annie Gagiano; title: Madam & Eve; title: ten wonderful years: a cartoon strip and its role in post-apartheid South Africa / Gisela Feurle; title: Laughing back at the kingfisher: Zakes Mda's The heart of redness and postcolonial humour / Wendy Woodward.