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Politics of Recognition and Representation in Indian Stand-Up Comedy

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  • Jun 2024

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Editors:
  1. Richa Chilana

    1. School of Liberal Studies, UPES, Prem Nagar, India

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  2. Rashi Bhargava

    1. Department of Sociology, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India

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  • Explores the novel and growing terrain of stand-up comedy in India
  • Discusses how stand-up comedy grapples with and represents the intersectional nature of identity
  • Explores how India and Indianness is constructed, contested and censored in various comedy contact zones

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Comedy (PSCOM)

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Keywords

  • Standup comedy
  • India
  • Politics
  • Representation
  • Identity
  • Surveillance

About this book

This book, first of its kind in the Indian context, brings together both a theoretical understanding of various aspects of the humour, aesthetics and politics of stand-up comedy, and case studies of various forms of stand-up comedy in India. This volume is interdisciplinary wherein the contributors raise pertinent issues about the role of stand-up comedy in India in contemporary times. With an increased presence of OTT platforms and internet penetration that allows for easy access to this art form, stand-up comedy in India cannot be ignored anymore. The book includes chapters on Indian stand-up comedy related to the themes of: interrogating the term ‘Indian stand-up comedy’; historical lineage of stand-up in India; the politics of language and laughter; ‘charged humour’ vs ‘safe’/profitable comedy; stand-up comics as parrhesiastes, performance of the self and comic personas; comedy and other forms of artistic expression; laughter clubs, urbanism and stand-up comedy; surveillance, censorship and trolling; the economy of production and consumption of stand-up comedy and the ‘silences’ and limitations in the contemporary form of stand-up in India.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Liberal Studies, UPES, Prem Nagar, India

    Richa Chilana

  • Department of Sociology, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India

    Rashi Bhargava

About the editors

Richa Chilana is Senior Assistant Professor at School of Liberal Studies, UPES, Dehradun, India.

Rashi Bhargava is Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology and Social Work, Christ University, Bengaluru, India.




Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Politics of Recognition and Representation in Indian Stand-Up Comedy

  • Editors: Richa Chilana, Rashi Bhargava

  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Comedy

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-39426-3Due: 30 June 2024

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-39429-4Due: 30 June 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-39427-0Due: 30 June 2024

  • Series ISSN: 2731-4332

  • Series E-ISSN: 2731-4340

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXV, 240

  • Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations

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