Sexual Humour in Africa (eBook, ePUB)

Gender, Jokes, and Societal Change
Redaktion: Chukwumah, Ignatius

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the types, discourse modes, and effects of sex jokes in different African contexts, in a range of different cultural forms, from the internet, to music, books, films, advertising, and images; thus filling the existing void in literature on the subject.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000562958
• Artikelnr.: 63521108

Autorenporträt

Ignatius Chukwumah is professor of African literature and popular culture at Federal University, Wukari, Nigeria.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction PART I: Sex joke 1 Egyptian sex jokes: Perspectives,
classification, and analysis SEBASTIAN GADOMSKI 2 Sex humour: Purveyor of
sex mores and power matrices PATRICK CHESI LUMASIA 3 The theatre of jokers:
An investigation of the joking relationship between the Tonga and Lozi of
Zambia CHEELA CHILALA AND HUMPHREY M. KAPAU PART II: African language, folk
music, and rhetorical strategies 4 Pudendic cult and public discourse:
Pornogrammar rhetorical strategy in Ghana's public spaces JOSEPH BROOKMAN
AMISSAH-ARTHUR 5 The dynamics of humour in coital imagery: Reflections on
Bukusu Embalu and select East African popular music FRED W. SIMIYU AND
FELIX ORINA PART III: Sex joke and the written word 6 Validating the
subversive: A (re)reading of sex images in Okot p'Bitek's Song of Malaya
BARASA REMMY SHIUNDU 7 Through the lens of gender: Sex jokes in selected
contemporary East African popular fiction VINCENT ODHIAMBO ODUOR PART IV:
(Cis)gender, ideology, and discourse 8 "I beg to differ": Queer notes on
Kenyan editorial cartoons EDDIE OMBAGI 9 Sex jokes and ideology: A
sociopragmatic inquiry of the place of humour in gender performance and
practices BENEDICTA ADOKARLEY LOMOTEY AND GRACE DIABAH 10 Reinforcing
gendered scripts: Sexuality and double performance in Helen Paul's
joke-performance IGNATIUS CHUKWUMAH PART V: Bodies and representations 11
"Ooin, freaky freaky, you are doing well": A discourse analysis of the
representations of women in selected Nigerian skits IBUKUN FILANI AND
ADEOTI OLUWATOMI 12 The humour of erotica: Representations of women in
Ghanaian social media HANNAH WOODE AMISSAH-ARTHUR PART VI: Resistance and
responses 13 Bizarre masculinity: Female response to rape jokes on social
media in Nigeria MARTIN OKWOLI OGBA 14 "Good for the goose, better for the
gander": Female sex jokes responses as resistance to cultural convention in
selected social media chats SANDRA NNABUIFE NWAGBOSO AND ADACHUKWU
AMALACHUKWU OKAFOR