Comedy and Critical Thought: Laughter as Resistance

Comedy and Critical Thought
	Contents
	Acknowledgements
	1 Introduction: Setting the Agenda
	Part I: Comedy, Critique and Resistance
		2 Diagrams of Comic Estrangement
		3 ‘Against the Assault of Laughter’: Differentiating Critical and Resistant Humour
		4 Can We Learn the Truth from Lenny Bruce? A Careful Cognitivism about Satire
		5 Laughter, Liturgy, Lacan and Resistance to Capitalist Logic
		6 Humitas: Humour as Performative Resistance
	Part II: Laughter as Resistance?
		7 Conformist Comedians: Political Humour in the Eighteenth-Century Dutch Republic
		8 First World War Cartoon Comedy as Criticism of British Politics and Society
		9 A Suspended Pratfall: Mimesis and Slapstick in Contemporary Art
		10 ‘Life’ in Struggle: The Indifferent Humour of Beckett’s Prose Heroes
		11 ‘Holiday in Cambodia’: Punk’s Acerbic Comedy
		12 ‘What Can’t Be Cured Must Be Endured’: The Postcolonial Humour of Salman Rushdie, Sami Shah and Hari Kondabolu
		13 Political Jester: From Fool to King
		14 Three Easy Steps to a New You? Or, Some Thoughts on the Politics of Humour in the Workplace . . .
	Index
	About the Contributors