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This book examines the types, discourse modes, and effects of sex
jokes in different African contexts, in a range of different
cultural forms, from the internet to music, books, films,
advertising, and images, thus filling the existing void in
literature on the subject. Arguing that sex jokes are used to
perform a number of functions in African society, the contributors
show how they can be used to perpetuate violence against women,
construct spaces, resist oppression, create conformity, build
affiliations, and subvert morality. They consider jokes from Egypt,
Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, and Zambia in a range of forms including
queer sex jokes, rape jokes, performed sex jokes, gendered humour,
and resistance sex humour. The book places particular emphasis on
the impact of new media platforms and the anonymity they provide.
Providing an important analysis of this tabooed but culturally
important facet of everyday life, this book will be of interest to
scholars of African culture and society from a range of
disciplines, including anthropology, gender studies, literary
studies, and sociology.
Jokes have always been part of African culture, but never have they
been so blended with the strains and gains of the contemporary
African world as today. Joke-Performance in Africa describes and
analyses the diverse aesthetics, forms, and media of jokes and
their performance and shows how African jokes embody the anxieties
of the time and space in which they are enacted. The book considers
the pervasive phenomenon of jokes and their performance across
Africa in such forms as local jests, street jokes, cartoons,
mchongoano, ewhe-eje, stand-up comedy, internet sex jokes, and
'comicast' transmitted via modern technology media such as the TV,
CDs, DVDs, the internet platforms of YouTube, Facebook, and other
social arenas, as well as live performances. Countries represented
are Egypt, Kenya, Malawi, Morocco, Nigeria, and Zambia, covering
the North, West, East and Southern Africa. The book explores the
description of the joke form from various perspectives, ranging
from critical discourse analysis, interviews, humour theories,
psychoanalysis, the postcolony and technauriture, to the
interactive dramaturgy of joke-performances, irrespective of media
and modes of performance. Containing insightful contributions from
leading African scholars, the book acquaints readers with detailed
descriptions of the diverse aesthetics of contemporary African
jokes, thereby contributing to the current understanding of
joke-performance in Africa. It will appeal to students and scholars
of African studies, popular culture, theatre, performance studies
and literary studies.
This book examines the types, discourse modes, and effects of sex
jokes in different African contexts, in a range of different
cultural forms, from the internet to music, books, films,
advertising, and images, thus filling the existing void in
literature on the subject. Arguing that sex jokes are used to
perform a number of functions in African society, the contributors
show how they can be used to perpetuate violence against women,
construct spaces, resist oppression, create conformity, build
affiliations, and subvert morality. They consider jokes from Egypt,
Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, and Zambia in a range of forms including
queer sex jokes, rape jokes, performed sex jokes, gendered humour,
and resistance sex humour. The book places particular emphasis on
the impact of new media platforms and the anonymity they provide.
Providing an important analysis of this tabooed but culturally
important facet of everyday life, this book will be of interest to
scholars of African culture and society from a range of
disciplines, including anthropology, gender studies, literary
studies, and sociology.
Jokes have always been part of African culture, but never have they
been so blended with the strains and gains of the contemporary
African world as today. Joke-Performance in Africa describes and
analyses the diverse aesthetics, forms, and media of jokes and
their performance and shows how African jokes embody the anxieties
of the time and space in which they are enacted. The book considers
the pervasive phenomenon of jokes and their performance across
Africa in such forms as local jests, street jokes, cartoons,
mchongoano, ewhe-eje, stand-up comedy, internet sex jokes, and
'comicast' transmitted via modern technology media such as the TV,
CDs, DVDs, the internet platforms of YouTube, Facebook, and other
social arenas, as well as live performances. Countries represented
are Egypt, Kenya, Malawi, Morocco, Nigeria, and Zambia, covering
the North, West, East and Southern Africa. The book explores the
description of the joke form from various perspectives, ranging
from critical discourse analysis, interviews, humour theories,
psychoanalysis, the postcolony and technauriture, to the
interactive dramaturgy of joke-performances, irrespective of media
and modes of performance. Containing insightful contributions from
leading African scholars, the book acquaints readers with detailed
descriptions of the diverse aesthetics of contemporary African
jokes, thereby contributing to the current understanding of
joke-performance in Africa. It will appeal to students and scholars
of African studies, popular culture, theatre, performance studies
and literary studies.
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