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Humour and Politics in Africa

2023
Humour and Politics in Africa provides an innovative analysis of the diversity and complexity of humour – and its political significance – across Africa. This political significance, the book argues, goes beyond the framing of humour-as-resistance. As the book explores, humour is used for – and does – a vast array of political work that may be viewed ...
Daniel Hammett   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

The pleasures of political humour in Australian democracy

Journal of Australian Studies, 2010
Abstract Political humour is ubiquitous and ancient yet it does not fit with the civility and rationality demanded by the Habermasian public sphere. This incongruity is evident in nineteenth and early twentieth century Australia where political humour was aggressive and malicious, not only in parliament but also in unruly public gatherings.
exaly   +2 more sources

Humour and Politics in Africa: An Overview

2023
This chapter provides a comprehensive background of the both the history of and contemporary literature on humour and politics in Africa. Africa has rich humorous traditions that are frequently overlooked but which underpin many contemporary forms of humour.
Daniel Hammett   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Chapter 1. Humour in politics and the politics of humour

2011
In this chapter, the authors offer a working definition of political humour and summarise its main aspects as discussed in the relevant literature: the genres where political humour surfaces or dominates; the reasons why political criticism is so often encoded in humorous terms; and the (side-)effects of political humour.
Villy Tsakona, Diana Elena Popa
openaire   +1 more source

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