Humour and the Performance of Power in South Asia: Anxiety, Laughter and Politics in Unstable Times

ISBN-13: 9780367541804 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 194 str.

Sasanka Perera; Dev Nath Pathak

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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