Punching Up in Stand Up Comedy Speaking Truth to Power 1st edition By Rashi Bhargava, Richa Chilana ISBN 9781032267258

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ISBN 13: 9781032267258

Author: Rashi Bhargava, Richa Chilana

Punching Up in Stand-Up Comedy explores the new forms, voices and venues of stand-up comedy in different parts of the world and its potential role as a counterhegemonic tool for satire, commentary and expression of identity especially for the disempowered or marginalised.

The title brings together essays and perspectives on stand-up and satire from different cultural and political contexts across the world which raise pertinent issues regarding its role in contemporary times, especially with the increased presence of OTT platforms and internet penetration that allows for easy access to this art form. It examines the theoretical understanding of the different aspects of the humour, aesthetics and politics of stand-up comedy, as well as the exploration of race, gender, politics and conflicts, urban culture and LGBTQ+ identities in countries such as Indonesia, Finland, France, Iran, Italy, Morocco, India and the USA. It also asks the question whether, along with contesting and destabilising existing discursive frameworks and identities, a stand-up comic can open up a space for envisaging a new social, cultural and political order?

This book will appeal to people interested in performance studies, media, popular culture, digital culture, sociology, digital sociology and anthropology, and English literature.

Chapter 9 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons (CC-BY) 4.0 license. Funded by the University of Helsinki.

Table of contents: 

Part I Punching In and Punching Up: Origins, Limits and Possibilities

1 The History of Moroccan Stand-Up Comedy: From Storytelling to Charged Humour

Mohamed Bassou and Rebecca Krefting

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 Punch? The Powers and Perils of Humour against the New Conspiracism

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