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Colonies dans la littérature --- Colonies in literature --- Koloniale literatuur --- Kolonies in de literatuur --- Littérature coloniale --- Littérature post-coloniale --- Littérature postcoloniale --- Littératures postcoloniales --- Postcolonialism in literature --- Postcolonialisme dans la littérature --- Postcolonialité littéraire --- Postkoloniale literatuur --- Postkolonialisme in de literatuur --- Poésie postcoloniale --- Roman postcolonial --- Théâtre postcolonial --- Dutch literature --- Colonies in literature. --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Dutch literature - 20th century - History and criticism. --- COLONIES DANS LA LITTERATURE --- LITTERATURE ANTILLAISE DE LANGUE NEERLANDAISE --- LITTERATURE INDONESIENNE DE LANGUE NEERLANDAISE --- LITTERATURE AFRIKAANS --- Postcolonialisme --- PAYS-BAS --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE --- Dans la littérature --- COLONIES --- Colonies --- Colonies néerlandaises

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Humour is a key feature, laughter a central element, disrespect a vital textual strategy of postcolonial transcultural practice. Devices such as irony, parody, and subversion, can be subsumed under an interventionist stance and have accordingly received some critical attention. But literary and cultural postcolonial criticism has been marked by a restraint verging on the pious towards the wider significance and functions of laughter. This collection transcends such orthodoxies: laughter can constitute an intervention - but it can also function otherwise. The essays collected here take an interest in the strategic use of what can loosely be termed laughter - in all its manifestations. Examining postcolonial transcultural practice from a range of disciplinary and methodological perspectives, this study seeks to analyse laughter and the postcolonial in their complexity. For the first time, then, this collection gathers a group of international specialists in postcolonial transcultural studies to analyse the functions of laughter, the comic and humour in a wide range of cultural texts. Contributors work on texts from Africa, Asia, Australia, North America, the Caribbean, and Britain, reading work by authors such as Zakes Mda, Timothy Mo, VS Naipaul, and Zadie Smith. This interdisciplinary collection is a contribution to both, postcolonial studies and humour theory.

Decolonization --- Dekolonisatie --- Dekolonisation --- Descolonização --- Décolonisation --- Humor en geestigheid in de literatuur --- Humor in literature --- Humour dans la littérature --- Littérature post-coloniale --- Littérature postcoloniale --- Littératures postcoloniales --- Postcolonialism --- Postcolonialism in literature --- Postcolonialisme --- Postcolonialisme dans la littérature --- Postcolonialité littéraire --- Postkolonialisme --- Postkolonialisme in de literatuur --- Poésie postcoloniale --- Roman postcolonial --- Théâtre postcolonial --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- anno 1900-1999 --- #SBIB:39A5 --- #SBIB:309H517 --- Kunst, habitat, materiële cultuur en ontspanning --- Verbale communicatie: sociale psychologie van de taal en de interactie, psycholinguistiek --- Comic, The, in literature. --- Humor in literature. --- Laughter in literature. --- Literature and anthropology. --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Anthropology and literature --- Anthropology