Typologies of Humor in African Literatures

Typologies of Humor in African Literatures

Opoku-Agyemang, Adwoa A

The University of Michigan Press

10/2024

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Contents
Introduction
Laughing in the Grey Areas
Chapter 1. Trickster
Calamatus-The Trickster as Comic Writer in Diaries of a Dead African
Brother Jero-The Trickster's Play on Complicity
Chapter 2. Mimic
The Blinkards: Comic Mimicry and Excess
Beyond The Blinkards-Cultural Mediation in Le Vieux Negre et la medaille
Chapter 3. Interpreter
"Sweetness" in Interpreting
L'Etrange destin de Wangrin: Interpreting as Trade
Chapter 4. Deviant Norm
A Comic Universe: Relief, Ridicule and Revelry
Two Worlds?
Conclusion
References
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African literature;laughter;humor;comedy;drama;lightheartedness;seriousness;funniness;African fiction;African novels;African drama;African poetry;African senses of humor;Ghana;Nigeria;Cameroon;South Africa;Ferdinand Oyono;Chinua Achebe;Wole Soyinka;Amadou Hampate Ba