Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/10131752.2021.1986985
F. Ogoanah, F. O. Ojo
Abstract The purpose of this study is to critically examine humorous responses to the Covid-19 pandemic, in various contexts, with a focus on discursive structures of presupposition and dissociation which are ideologically laden based on people’s prior knowledge about Covid-19 situation management in Nigeria, and their attitudes towards the published guidelines. The study is based on Teun van Dijk’s socio-cognitive approach to discourse, which attempts to show how the relation between discourse and society is cognitively mediated by way of the mental representations created by language users as members of society. The data for this study are Nigerian comedies about the novel coronavirus, purposively selected from YouTube. The study finds that Nigerians consider the guidelines published by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) as ridiculous, hence the humorous responses found in comedies. The study also finds that this attitude may be based on people’s views of the intrigues surrounding the pandemic, and that the laughter generated signifies audience involvement in the humour created when the comedies reference the NCDC guidelines.
本研究的目的是在不同背景下批判性地审视对Covid-19大流行的幽默回应，重点关注预设和分离的话语结构，这些结构基于人们对尼日利亚Covid-19情况管理的先验知识，以及他们对已发布指南的态度。本研究基于Teun van Dijk的话语社会认知方法，该方法试图展示话语与社会之间的关系是如何通过作为社会成员的语言使用者所创造的心理表征来认知调解的。这项研究的数据是尼日利亚关于新型冠状病毒的喜剧，故意从YouTube上选择。研究发现，尼日利亚人认为尼日利亚疾病控制中心(NCDC)发布的指导方针是荒谬的，因此在喜剧中发现了幽默的回应。研究还发现，这种态度可能是基于人们对围绕大流行的阴谋的看法，而产生的笑声表明，当喜剧参考NCDC指南时，观众参与了幽默。
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/10131752.2021.1986979
I. Chukwumah
Abstract This study, deviating from the extant literature’s focus on interactional frames in Nigerian humour, focuses on the primary frameworks—signifying social parameters and resources—with which humorists represented the fears and inhumanities of the tragic global Covid-19 pandemic, especially in the first quarter of 2020. The project draws on Gregory Bateson’s mood-sign, a signifying emotional response to stimulation; Erving Goffman’s theory of social frames; and Arthur Schopenhauer’s notion of suffering owing to human beings’ innate and perpetual cruelty to their fellows. Goffman’s notions of key, keying, fabrication, and primary frameworks untangle the different social signifying practices drawn on to present Nigerians’ painful encounters with Covid-19, while Schopenhauer’s work assists in unveiling the mode of suffering encountered. Each skit provides a perspective on the suffering experienced. The skits that are most versatile in their incorporation of transformative keys, framing elements, and suffering during that uneasy period are analysed. The results indicate that the primary frameworks were transformed in order for Nigerian comedians to represent the suffering experienced by Nigerians.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00020186708707267
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10131752.2021.1948191
Elizabeth Nicholas
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10131752.2021.1951487
Betty Govinden
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10131752.2021.1932089
Betty Govinden
It is my pleasure to introduce Professor Rosemary Gray. Rosemary is emeritus professor in the Department of English at the University of Pretoria. She is a rated researcher, specialising in Old English and Pan-African texts; her current research interest is the work of Ben Okri. She has presented twenty-seven papers on Okri’s oeuvre in the past decade on a variety of international platforms and has published many more.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10131752.2021.1949803
Sope Maithufi
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10131752.2021.1919401
Jean. Rossmann
Abstract It is over 20 years since Marlene van Niekerk published Triomf ([1994] 1999, Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball), a satire of the poor white Benade family, who have been bedazzled by apartheid ideology. This iconoclastic satire was published originally in Afrikaans in 1994, the year of the first democratic elections in South Africa. This article offers a close reading of “Peace on Earth”, a chapter that desublimates significant sacred icons in Afrikaner cultural mythology and offers a critique of the intricate workings of ideology. Notably, this critique relies upon the abjection of the male Afrikaner’s body, in particular that of Treppie Benade. Treppie, the satirist, is found sitting upon the “throne” (toilet) as he purges himself of the lies and illusions of apartheid ideology through a lengthy scatology. This article begins by situating the novel in terms of its commentary on the apartheid government’s attempt to rehabilitate the abject of the Afrikaner volk: poor white “trash”. It highlights excrement as a master trope of the satirist before analysing the allusions to Judeo-Christian iconography and (e)scatology (invoked in the Great Trek narrative) in terms of their resonances with Louis Althusser’s and Slavoj Žižek’s concepts of ideology. Further, I explore Treppie’s faecal tapestry in terms of an immanent sublime, drawing on Julia Kristeva’s theory of abjection and Friedrich Nietzsche’s Dionysian sublime. In conclusion, I consider Treppie’s final words and orientation at the end of the novel, and the implications of his Dionysian approach to an uncertain future.
Marlene van Niekerk出版《Triomf》([1994]1999，约翰内斯堡:Jonathan Ball)已经20多年了，它讽刺了贫穷的白人Benade家族，他们被种族隔离意识形态所迷惑。这部反传统的讽刺作品最初于1994年以南非荷兰语出版，那一年南非举行了第一次民主选举。这篇文章提供了对“地球上的和平”的仔细阅读，这一章对阿非利卡文化神话中重要的神圣象征进行了升华，并对意识形态的复杂运作进行了批判。值得注意的是，这种批评依赖于男性阿非利卡人的身体，尤其是特雷皮·贝纳德的身体。讽刺作家Treppie坐在“宝座”(马桶)上，通过冗长的粪便清洗自己对种族隔离意识形态的谎言和幻想。本文首先从小说对种族隔离政府试图为南非白人——贫穷的白人“垃圾”——平反的评论入手。它强调了粪便是讽刺作家的主要修辞，然后分析了犹太教-基督教图像学和(e)粪便学(在大旅行叙事中引用)的典故，根据它们与路易斯·阿尔都塞和斯拉沃伊Žižek的意识形态概念的共鸣。此外，我从内在崇高的角度探讨了Treppie的粪便挂毯，借鉴了Julia Kristeva的堕落理论和Friedrich Nietzsche的酒神崇高。最后，我考虑了特雷皮在小说结尾的最后一句话和方向，以及他对不确定未来的酒神式态度的含义。
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10131752.2021.1949849
E. Boehmer
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10131752.2021.1926705
L. Wright
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