Digital carnivalesque : power discourse and counter narratives in Singapore social media / Hoi-Yi Katy Kan.

This book challenges the framing of comedic acts as apolitical and it adopts a multimodal critical discourse approach to interrogate the performance of comedy as a form of power. It proposes using Bakhtins carnivalesque as the analytic tool to distil for readers key differences between humour as ban...

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Main Author: Kan, Hoi-Yi Katy (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer, [2020]
Series:Cultural studies and transdisciplinarity in education ; v. 10.
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