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245 00 a| Humour and the performance of power in South Asiah| [electronic resource] :b| anxiety, laughter and politics in unstable times /c| edited by, Sasanka Perera and Dev Nath Pathak.;

250 a| First South Asia edition.;

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300 a| xiii, 194 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 24 cm;

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Humour and the performance of power in South Asia anxiety, laughter and politics in unstable times / edited by, Sasanka Perera and Dev Nath Pathak.

Other author	Perera, Sasanka.
Other author	Pathak, Dev Nath.
Format	Electronic
Edition	First South Asia edition.
Publication Info	Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.
Description	xiii, 194 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks
Subjects	Political satire--History and criticism. Wit and humor--Political aspects. Power (Social sciences)--South Asia. South Asia--Humor.

Contents	List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- 1. Introduction: cultural politics of humour in South Asia / Sasanka Perera and Dev Nath Pathak -- Part I. Humour in literary and visual subversions : 2. Colonial cartoons: punch and vernacular punch politics of humour in colonial India / Divyendu Jha -- 3. Khattar Kaka's subversive Hinduism: a case of literary-cultural politics of humour / Dev Nath Pathak -- Part II. Folkloric worldviews: laughter as performed narratives : 4. Tales from Assam's tea gardens: when humour becomes resistance in the everyday life-world of labourers / Prithiraj Borah -- 5. Dramatic Haryanvi humour: a case of subversion in jakari and ragni / Monika Yadav -- 6. "A Sri Lankan arrives in hell": a case of laughing at "Sri Lanka" and the "Sri Lankan" in a collection of modern folktales / Lal Medawattegedara -- 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 / Sasanka Perera -- 8. Humorous masculinity: Nepali men in mediated Indian male gaze / Sandhya A. S. and Chitra Adkar -- 9. Politics of performance and performance of politics: analysing stand-up comedy in the Indian context / Sukrity Gogoi and Simona Sarma -- 10. Humorous public in Bangladesh: an analytical reading of mediated politics / Ratan Kumar Roy -- Index.
General note	Contributed articles.
General note	"A Routledge India original"--Cover.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Other forms	Also available as an e-book.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2022337315
ISBN	9781032332451 (hbk)
ISBN	(ebk)
Stock number	Library of Congress -- New Delhi Overseas Office

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