Punching up in stand-up comedy : speaking truth to power /
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2023.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: Punching in and punching up: origins, limits and possibilities / Mohamed Bassou and Rebecca Krefting
- 1. The history of Moroccan stand-up comedy: from storytelling to charged humour / Nina Setyaningsih and Anisa Larassati
- 2. Standing up for speaking up: stand-up comedy in the Indonesian context / Nina Setyaningsih and Anisa Larassati
- 3. The Jamel Comedy Club: (mis)understanding stand-up comedy's relationship with urban culture in France / Jonathan Ervine
- 4. Stand-up comedy as escape: caste and media infrastructure in Mumbai / Aju James
- 5. Voices from the comedy contact zone: regarding performative strategies toward race and the transnational body / Rachel E. Blackburn
- Part II: Gendered experiences and stand-up comedy
- 6. Humour as antihistamine in the discourse of Persian stand-up comedy: female stand-up comedians in Iran / Mohammad Ali Heidari-Shahreza
- 7. Asserting cultural citizenship through situated comedy: female comedians in India / Madhavi Shivaprasad
- 8. Notes on Hannah Gadsby's Nanette, Adorno's Kulturindustrie and feminism / Christian Berger
- Part III: Comics and the audience: connections, ethics and efficacy?
- 9. Awkward connections: stand-up comedy as affective arrangement / Antti Lindfors
- 10. The revolution will be a joke: Semiotic ideologies of ethics and efficacy in stand-up comedy / Marianna Keisalo
- 11. Standing up for a cause: the cathartic and persuasive power of stand-up comedy / Margherita Dore
- 12. Which direction do we ounch? The powers and perils of humour against the new conspiracism / Chris A. Kramer.
