Abstract

With the particular focus on the Indian context, this paper attempts to study the genre of stand-up comedy as a form of creative resilience, by applying the theory of Fiske’s popular culture. Through the case study of select stand-up acts of comics like Rahul Dua, Saurav Mehta, Munawar Faruqui and Kunal Kamra, this paper analyzes English and Hindi satirical stand-up comedy in India. The papers also trace the evolution and differences between both the Indian English and the Hindi satirical stand-up comedy. It explores the elements of resistance put forward by the comics with the help of the new media laughscape that has provided them with a radical space, through which they direct their process of social transformation. The paper foregrounds the radical reimagining of humour wielded as a weapon for socio-political subversion.

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Title
Performative retrieving of humour for socio-political subversion: stand-up comedy as a form of creative resilience
Author
Ahmad, Farhan 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Alam, Sohaib 2   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Kaur, Anmolpreet 3   VIAFID ORCID Logo 

1  Department of English Studies, Faculty of Indian and Foreign Languages, Akal University Talwandi Sabo, 151302, India 
2  Department of English, College of Sciences and Humanities in Al-Kharj, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Abdullah Bin Amer Street, 16278, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 
3  PG Student, Department. of English Studies, Akal University, India 
Publication year
2022
Publication date
Jan 2022
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd.
e-ISSN
23311983
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2022.2131968
ProQuest document ID
2754649103
Copyright
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