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BL
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992408
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b746778
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| Title & Author
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Cheeky fictions : : laughter and the postcolonial /\ edited by Susanne Reichl and Mark Stein.
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| Publication Statement
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Amsterdam :: Rodopi,, 2005.
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| Series Statement
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Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft,; 91
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1 online resource (viii, 315 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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1423791207
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: 9781423791201
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9042019956
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9789042019959
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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Comic, The, in literature.
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Humor in literature.
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Laughter in literature.
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Literature and anthropology.
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Postcolonialism in literature.
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Comique dans la littérature.
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Humour dans la littérature.
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Littérature et anthropologie.
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Postcolonialisme dans la littérature.
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Rire dans la littérature.
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Comic, The, in literature.
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Englisch
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Humor in literature.
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Humor
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Laughter in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- General.
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Literature and anthropology.
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Postcolonialism in literature.
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Postkoloniale Literatur
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TRAVEL-- Special Interest-- Literary.
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| Dewey Classification
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809
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| LC Classification
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PN56.L3C43 2005eb
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HP 1120rvk
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HP 1120.rvk
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HP 1130rvk
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HP 1130.rvk
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