Humour and the Performance of Power in South Asia

Anxiety, Laughter and Politics in Unstable Times
Herausgeber: Perera, Sasanka; Pathak, Dev Nath

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Produktbeschreibung

This book critically examines the role and politics of humour and the performance of power in South Asia. The volume explores the impact of humour in South Asian folklore, ritual performances, media and journalism, and online technologies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9780367541804
• ISBN-10: 0367541807
• Artikelnr.: 62569544

Autorenporträt

Sasanka Perera is Professor of Sociology at South Asian University, New Delhi, India. Dev Nath Pathak is Assistant Professor of Sociology at South Asian University, New Delhi, India.

Inhaltsangabe

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