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050 00 $aP304$b.J65 2018
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245 00 $aJoke-performance in Africa :$bmode, media and meaning /$cedited by Ignatius Chukwumah.
264 1 $aAbingdon, Oxon ;$aNew York, NY :$bRoutledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group,$c2018.
300 $axvii, 290 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aRoutledge contemporary Africa
520 $a"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. Joke-Performance in Africa describes and analyses the diverse aesthetics, forms, and media of jokes and their performance and shows how African jokes embody the anxieties of the time and space in which they are enacted. The book considers the pervasive phenomenon of jokes and its performance across Africa in such forms as local jests, street jokes, cartoons, mchongoano, ehwe-eje, stand-up comedy, internet sex jokes, and 'comicast' transmitted via modern technology media such as the TV, CDs, DVDs, the internet platforms of YouTube, Facebook, and other social arenas, as well as live performances. Countries represented are Egypt, Kenya, Malawi, Morocco, Nigeria, and Zambia, covering the North, West, East and Southern Africa. The book explores the description of the joke form from various perspectives, ranging from critical discourse analysis, interviews, humour theories, psychoanalysis, the postcolony and technauriture, to the interactive dramaturgy of joke-performances, irrespective of media and modes of performance. Containing insightful contributions from leading African scholars, the book acquaints readers with detailed descriptions of the diverse aesthetics of contemporary African jokes, thereby contributing to the current understanding of joke-performance in Africa. It will appeal to students and scholars of African studies, popular culture, theatre, performance studies and literary studies."--Publisher's summary.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 00 $tIntroduction --$gI. "Joking about the government". --$t(Re)imagining the postcolony in Kenya's The XYZ show joke-cartoons /$rRemmy Shiundu Barasa --$tNigeria's 2015 presidential elections and the rise of "comicast" /$rIgnatius Chukwumah --$tJoking about the government : a close reading of the Moroccan comic show : "The school of the naughty" /$rZakariae Bouhmala. --$gII.$tTraditional forms and (post)modern contexts. --$tEhwe-ejẹ : art and humour in Urhobo joke-performance /$rPeter E. Omoko -- Aesthetics of Anganga Afiki's video joke-performance in Malawi /$rSmith Likongwe --$tJoke-performance and the Tiv cultural context of satirizing and appraising postmodernity /$rGodwin Aondofa Ikyer --$tEgyptian satire in modern media age /$rSebastian Gadomski. --$gIII.$tStreet jokes. --$t(Con)text and performance of mchongoano : an urban youth joke genre in Kenya /$rWangari Mwai, David Kimongo and Charles Kebaya --$tJoke-performance in Egypt : halah and kouta hamra /$rHeba M. Sharobeem. --$gIV.$tSex and gender. --$tThe aesthetics of the ugly : perspectives on degrading online sex jokes in Kenya /$rFelix A. Orina and Fred W. Simiyu --$tDorika's metamorphosis : the allusive potency of a comic character /$rCheela Himutwe K. Chilala --$tFrom the "beautiful" to the "bold" : a linguistic analysis of some Doaa Farouk's humorous texts /$rMona Eid Saad. --$gV.$tStand-up comedy. --$tSeverity in hilarity : appraising the satirical value of stand-up comedy in Nigeria /$rSamuel O. Igomu --$tIdeological undertones in mediatised comedy in "Churchill live" show of Kenya /$rKhaemba Josephine Mulindi & Michael Mule Ndonye.
650 0 $aJoking$zAfrica.
650 0 $aAfrican wit and humor.
650 0 $aComic, The.
651 0 $aAfrica$xHumor.
650 7 $aComic, The.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00869191
650 7 $aJoking.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00983954
651 7 $aAfrica.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01239509
655 7 $aHumor.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01423696
700 1 $aChukwumah, Ignatius,$eeditor,$econtributor.
830 0 $aRoutledge contemporary Africa series.
852 00 $bglx$hP304$i.J65 2018