Humour and the Performance of Power in South Asia : Anxiety, Laughter and Politics in Unstable Times (Paperback)

Chapter 1 Introduction: Cultural Politics of Humour in South Asia Sasanka Perera and Dev Nath Pathak ? Part I: Humour in Literary and Visual Subversions ? Chapter 2 Colonial Cartoons: Punch and Vernacular Punch Politics of Humour in Colonial India Divyendu Jha ? Chapter 3 Khattar Kaka’s Subversive Hinduism: A Case of Literary-Cultural Politics of Humour Dev Nath Pathak ? Part II: Folkloric Worldviews: Laughter as Performed Narratives ? Chapter 4 Tales from Assam's Tea Gardens: When Humour becomes Resistance in Everyday Life-world of Labourers Prithiraj Borah ? Chapter 5 Dramatic Haryanvi Humour: A Case of Subversion in Jakari and Ragni Monika Yadav ? Chapter 6 ‘A Sri Lankan Arrives in Hell’: A Case of Laughing at ‘Sri Lanka’ and the ‘Sri Lankan’ in a Collection of Modern Folktales Lal Medawattegedara ? Part III: Mediated Messages for Laughing and Thinking ? Chapter 7 Humour, Criticality and the Performance of Anonymous Power: Internet Memes as Political Commentaries in Sinhala Society Sasanka Perera ? Chapter 8 Humorous Masculinity: Nepali Men in Mediated Indian Male Gaze Sandhya A.S and Chitra Adkar ? Chapter 9 Politics of Performance and Performance of Politics: Analysing Stand-Up Comedy in the Indian Context Sukrity Gogoi and Simona Sarma Chapter 10 Humorous Public in Bangladesh: An Analytical Reading of Mediated Politics Ratan Kumar Roy