Humour and the Performance of Power in South Asia

Humour and the Performance of Power in South Asia

Anxiety, Laughter and Politics in Unstable Times

Pathak, Dev Nath; Perera, Sasanka

Taylor & Francis Ltd

01/2022

194

Dura

Inglês

9780367541804

15 a 20 dias

453

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1. Introduction: Cultural Politics of Humour in South Asia Part I: Humour in Literary and Visual Subversions 2. Colonial Cartoons: Punch and Vernacular Punch Politics of Humour in Colonial India 3. Khattar Kaka's Subversive Hinduism: A Case of Literary-Cultural Politics of Humour Part II: Folkloric Worldviews: Laughter as Performed Narratives 4. Tales from Assam's Tea Gardens: When Humour becomes Resistance in Everyday Life-world of Labourers 5. Dramatic Haryanvi Humour: A Case of Subversion in Jakari and Ragni 6. 'A Sri Lankan Arrives in Hell': A Case of Laughing at 'Sri Lanka' and the 'Sri Lankan' in a Collection of Modern Folktales Part III: Mediated Messages for Laughing and Thinking 7. Humour, Criticality and the Performance of Anonymous Power: Internet Memes as Political Commentaries in Sinhala Society 8. Humorous Masculinity: Nepali Men in Mediated Indian Male Gaze 9. Politics of Performance and Performance of Politics: Analysing Stand-Up Comedy in the Indian Context 10. Humorous Public in Bangladesh: An Analytical Reading of Mediated Politics
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