Joke-Performance in Africa (eBook, ePUB)

Mode, Media and Meaning
Redaktion: Chukwumah, Ignatius

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Jokes have always been part of African culture, but never have they been so blended with the strains and gains of the contemporary African world as today. The book considers the pervasive phenomenon of jokes and their performance across Africa.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351668880
• Artikelnr.: 50516606

Autorenporträt

Ignatius Chukwumah, Ph.D is associate professor in the Department of English and Literary Studies at Federal University, Wukari, Taraba State, Nigeria. His research interests focus on African literature, African American literature, Indigenous African interpretive symbolic codes, figural and mythic studies, postcolonial deconstructive studies and popular culture.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I 'JOKING ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT' 1. (Re)Imagining the
Postcolony in Kenya's The XYZ Show Joke-Cartoons, Remmy Shiundu Barasa 2.
Nigeria's 2015 Presidential Elections and the Rise of "Comicast", Ignatius
Chukwumah 3. Joking About the Government: A Close Reading of the Moroccan
Comic Show: 'The School of the Naughty', Zakariae Bouhmala Part II
TRADITIONAL FORMS AND (POST)MODERN CONTEXTS 4. Ehwe-Ej¿: Art and Humour in
Urhobo Joke-Performance, Peter E. Omoko 5. Aesthetics of Anganga Afiki's
Video Joke-Performance in Malawi, Smith Likongwe 6. Joke-Performance and
the Tiv Cultural Context of Satirizing and Appraising Postmodernity,
Godwin Aondofa Ikyer7. Egyptian Satire in Modern Media Age, Sebastian
Gadomski Part III STREET JOKES 8. (Con)text and Performance of Mchongoano:
An Urban Youth Joke Genre in Kenya, Wangari Mwai, David Kimongo and Charles
Kebaya 9. Joke-Performance in Egypt: Halah and Kouta Hamra, Heba M.
Sharobeem Part IV SEX AND GENDER 10. The Aesthetics of the Ugly:
Perspectives on Degrading Online Sex Jokes in Kenya, Felix A. Orina and
Fred W. Simiyu 11. Dorika's Metamorphosis: The Allusive Potency of a Comic
Character, Cheela Himutwe K. Chilala 12. "From the 'Beautiful' to the
'Bold': A Linguistic Analysis of Some Doaa Farouk's Humorous Texts", Mona
Eid Saad Part V STAND-UP COMEDY 13. Severity in Hilarity: Appraising the
Satirical Value of Stand-up Comedy in Nigeria, Samuel O. Igomu 14.
Ideological Undertones in Mediatised Comedy in 'Churchill Live' Show of
Kenya, Khaemba Josephine Mulindi & Michael Mule Ndonye