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Humour & National Identity in Canadian Contemporary Art: Diana Thorneycroft, Simon Hughes & BGL
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Ethnicities, 2018
This article investigates the ways that the ostensible humour associated with contemporary blackface incidents in Canada is constituted. It argues that the conditions of possibility for contemporary Canadian blackface humour are an anti-black libidinal economy dependent upon the tropes of biological racism, and a socially embedded, psychic association ...
Philip Ss Howard
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This article investigates the ways that the ostensible humour associated with contemporary blackface incidents in Canada is constituted. It argues that the conditions of possibility for contemporary Canadian blackface humour are an anti-black libidinal economy dependent upon the tropes of biological racism, and a socially embedded, psychic association ...
Philip Ss Howard
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Negotiating adversity with humour: A case study of wildland firefighter women [PDF]
Political Geography, 2019 This paper examines humour as an emergent theme within a long-term study of the gendered terrain of wildfire management. It analyses a set of semi-structured interviews that the study utilised to facilitate in-depth conversations with firefighter women ...
Christine Eriksen
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4 Dissident Laughter: Diaries of National Struggles and the Aesthetics of Humour
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National And Cultural Specifics Of Humour In English Political And Economic Programmes
European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences, 2021The article is devoted to the study of stylistic means of creating humorous effect in British and American political and economic programmes, reflecting national and cultural humour characteristics. Nowadays people tend to be involved in economic situation; thus, the number of programmes on the topic is increasing both on TV and the Internet.
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A discourse analysis of national identity in Nigerian stand-up humour
Discourse Studies, 2020This article explores the comedic construction of national identity in Nigerian stand-up comedy. By national identity, I mean collective perspectives on the sociopolitical and cultural realities of postcolonial Nigeria. While critical discourse analysis provided the framework for interpretation, data was derived from purposively sampled recorded videos
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Raising Minstrelsy: Humour, Satire and the Stereotype in The Birth of a Nation and Bamboozled
Canadian Review of American Studies, 2003How much does blackface minstrelsy – the first form of American mass culture – share in modern depictions of blackness in popular television and cinema? What (if anything) can be done about the form’s disturbing legacy? Scholarly criticism over the past decade has grappled with these questions to uncertain effect and with limited success, sometimes ...
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2021
From the seemingly mundane jokes about everyday life in lockdown to the viral video of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa struggling to put on his mask correctly, there was never a dull moment on Twitter during the lockdown period. Indeed, the comic relief was no doubt a welcome diversion amidst the stringent stay-at-home rules of the hitherto ...
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From the seemingly mundane jokes about everyday life in lockdown to the viral video of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa struggling to put on his mask correctly, there was never a dull moment on Twitter during the lockdown period. Indeed, the comic relief was no doubt a welcome diversion amidst the stringent stay-at-home rules of the hitherto ...
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