Stand-up Comedy in Africa (eBook)

Humour in Popular Languages and Media

Izuu Nwankwọ (Herausgeber)

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2022 | Auflage
318 Seiten
ibidem (Verlag)
978-3-8382-7608-3 (ISBN)

Infos

African cultural productions of humour have increased even in the face of myriad economic foibles and social upheavals. For instance, from the 1990s, stand-up comedy emerged across the continent and has maintained a pervasive presence since then. Its specificities are related to contemporary economic and political contexts and are also drawn from its pre-colonial history, that of joking forms and relationships, and orality.

Izuu Nwankwọ's fascinating collected volume offers a transnational appraisal of this unique art form spanning different nations of the continent and its diasporas. The book engages variously with jokesters, their materials, the mediums of dissemination, and the cultural value(s) and relevance of their stage work, encompassing the form and content of the practice. Its ruling theoretical perspective comes from theatre and performance, cultural studies, linguistics, and literary studies.

Autor

Izuu Nwankwọ is a researcher, teacher, and writer. He translated Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall into the Igbo language: Ihe Aghasaa (2007) and authored the books Yabbing and Wording: The Artistry of Nigerian Stand-up Comedy and Humour and Politics in Africa (co-authored with Daniel Hammett and Laura S. Martin).

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.3.2022
• Co-Autor: Daria Tunca, Izuu Nwankwo, Jennalee Donian, Ken Junior Lipenga, Nkechi Mary Okadigwe, Amany El-Sawy, Ibukum Osuolale-Ajayi, Ebtesam El-Shokrofy, Danson Sylvester Kahyana, Nohayer E Lotfy, Charles Kebaya, Rowland Amaefula, Robin Kincaid Crigler, Jacqueline Oyiambo, Ignatius Chukwumah
• Vorwort: Ebenezer Obadare
• Sprache: englisch
• Gewicht: 412 g
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Africa • Humor • Humour • language • media • Medien • Sprache • Stand-up Comedy
• ISBN-10: 3-8382-7608-6 / 3838276086
• ISBN-13: 978-3-8382-7608-3 / 9783838276083