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Humour and Politics in Africa
Beyond Resistance
- 186 pages
- English
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About this book
Analyses of humour often focus primarily on the Global North, with little consideration for examples and practices from elsewhere. This book provides a vital contribution to humour theory by developing a Global South perspective.
Taking a wide-ranging view across the whole of the continent, the book examines the relationship between humour and politics in Africa. It considers the context of the production and reception of humour in African contexts and argues that humour is more than just symbolic. Moving beyond the idea of humour as a mode of resistance, the book investigates the 'political work' that humour does and explores the complex entanglements in which the politics, practices and performances of humour are located.
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Yes, you can access Humour and Politics in Africa by Daniel Hammett,Laura S. Martin,Izuu Nwankwọ in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politics & International Relations & Television. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- About the Authors
- Acknowledgements
- Preamble: Have You Heard the One about the Three Academics?
- One Humour and Politics in Africa: An Overview
- Two Multiple For(u)ms of Resistance: Humour, Agency and Power
- Three Beyond the Symbolic: Humour in Action
- Four Between Jokes: Silence and Ambiguities within Humour
- Five The Last Laugh?
- Notes
- References
- Index