Stand-Up Comedy in Africa: Humour in Popular Languages and Media by

Stand-Up Comedy in Africa: Humour in Popular Languages and Media (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783838216089)

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Stand-Up Comedy in Africa: Humour in Popular Languages and Media by

Stand-Up Comedy in Africa: Humour in Popular Languages and Media

$46.00
Stand-Up Comedy in Africa: Humour in Popular Languages and Media by

Stand-Up Comedy in Africa: Humour in Popular Languages and Media

$46.00
Format: Paperback
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Wondering how people manage to laugh in the face of unrelenting political assault is one thing; puzzling at the explosion of stand-up comedy across Africa is another. With the former, one ponders the question of social resilience among agents desperate to rescue and preserve dignity and self-worth; with the latter, one launches a sociological inquest into the emergence and diverse facets of an industry that has taken full advantage of all the affordances of the emergent techno-media.

Stand-up Comedy in Africa is a timely, interdisciplinary survey of an art form whose ubiquity prompts sundry technical, artistic, and political questions. For those seeking critical guidance on the ethics and praxes of popular performance in Africa, this is as good a place as any to start.

Author: Izuu Nwankwọ
ISBN-10: 3838216083
ISBN-13: 9783838216089
Publisher: Ibidem Press
Language: English
Published: 05/10/2022
Pages: 316
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.19h x 5.75w x 0.87d
By Izuu Nwankwọ
By Izuu Nwankwọ
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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).

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