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Title Hybrid humour : comedy in transcultural perspectives / edited by Graeme Dunphy and Rainer Emig.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (192 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 0929-6999 ; 130
Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 130.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary "An interdisciplinary and transcultural study of comedy in a pan-European perspective that include East, West, and Southern European examples. These range from humour in Polish poetry via jokes about Italian migrants in English-speaking TV commercials to Turkish comedy, literature and cartoons in Germany, Turkish, Surinamese, Iranian and Moroccan literary humour in the Netherlands, Beur humour in many media in France, and Asian humour in literature, film, and TV series in Great Britain. The volume is prefaced and informed by contemporary postcolonial theories that show humour not as an essential quality of each particular culture or as a common denominator of humanity, but as a complex structure of dialogue, conflict, and sometimes resolution. The volume is of interest for students and scholars of Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies, and Media Studies as well as for students and experts in the cultures and literatures that are covered in the collection of essays. It is relevant for courses on globalisation, migration, and integration."--Publisher's description.
Contents Hybridity and humour in modern Polish literature / Alexander Wöll -- Laughing at or laughing with? Italian comic stereotypes viewed from within the peripheral gorup / Delia Chiaro -- Dutch tulips in unexpected colours : humour in Dutch migrant writing : Kader Abdolah, Sevtap Baycılı, Khalid Boudou, Edgar Cairo / Michiel van Kampen -- Beur hybrid humour / Hédi Abdel-Jaouad -- Cold Turkey : domesticating and demythologising the exotic in the German satires of Şinasi Dikmen, Muhsin Omurca and Django Asül / Graeme Dunphy -- The empire tickles back : hybrid humour (and its problems) in contemporary Asian-British comedy / Rainer Emig.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Humor in literature.
Humor in literature.
European literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
European literature.
Chronological Term 20th century
1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Added Author Dunphy, R. Graeme.
Emig, Rainer, 1964-
Other Form: Print version: Hybrid humour. Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, ©2010 9789042028234 (OCoLC)530277439
ISBN 9789042028241 (electronic book)
9042028246 (electronic book)