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Cheeky fictions

laughter and the postcolonial

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An edition of Cheeky fictions (2005)

Cheeky fictions

laughter and the postcolonial

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Rodopi
Language
English
Pages
315

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Cheeky Fictions: Laughter and the Postcolonial
2005, Rodopi B.V. Editions
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Cheeky fictions: laughter and the postcolonial
2005, Rodopi
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Table of Contents

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.
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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Amsterdam, New York
Series
Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft -- 91
Other Titles
Laughter and the postcolonial

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
809/.917
Library of Congress
PN56.L3 C43 2005

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 315 p. :
Number of pages
315

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL20186673M
Internet Archive
cheekyfictionsla00reic
ISBN 10
9042019956
OCLC/WorldCat
61666254
Goodreads
2481144

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