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Humour and politics in Africa : beyond resistance / Daniel Hammett, Laura S. Martin, Izuu Nwankwọ.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hammett, Daniel, author.
- Martin, Laura, S., author.
- Nwankwọ E., Izuu, author.
- Series:
- Bristol shorts research.
- Bristol shorts research
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African wit and humor--History and criticism.
- African wit and humor.
- Wit and humor--Political aspects--Africa.
- Wit and humor.
- Africa--Politics and government.
- Africa.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 171 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol, UK : Bristol University Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- This book examines the relationship between humour and politics in Africa. 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.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Humour and Politics in Africa: Beyond Resistance
- Copyright information
- 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
- A history of humour in Africa
- Humorous contexts: identity and space
- Humour and politics: a brief overview
- TWO Multiple For(u)ms of Resistance
- Mbembe and resistance
- Something funny happened on the way to resistance and power
- Why the em-farce-is on resistance?
- States, hierarchies and agency at play
- Humour as coping and (political) self-reflexivity
- Humour as meaning-making and social commentary
- Humour in taboo-breaking and awareness-raising roles
- THREE Beyond the Symbolic
- No laughing matter: humour and/as violence
- Ambiguities in the power of humour
- Stripping power?
- Peaceful laughter
- Pacifying humour
- Knock, knock: who's there?
- The emperor's old clothes?
- The punchline ...
- FOUR Between Jokes
- Defining silence
- Silence as action
- Jokes and silences at play in African politics
- Have you heard the one about ... *silence*?
- FIVE The Last Laugh?
- Changing targets?
- Notes
- 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
- References
- Index
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Jan 2024).
- ISBN:
- 9781529219746
- 1529219744
- 9781529219722
- 1529219728
- 9781529219739
- 1529219736
- OCLC:
- 1373985252
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