ISBN:
9783642286063
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource ()
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context
Parallel Title:
Print version Asian Punches : A Transcultural Affair
DDC:
303.482504
Keywords:
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Abstract:
This book deals with ""Punches and Punch-like"" magazines in 19th and 20th century Asia, covering an area from Egypt and the Ottoman Empire in the West via British India up to China and Japan in the East. It traces an alternative and largely unacknowledged side of the history of this popular British periodical, and simultaneously casts a wide-reaching comparative glance on the genesis of satirical journalism in various Asian countries. Demonstrating the spread of both textual and visual satire, it is an apt demonstration of the transcultural trajectory of a format intimately linked to media-bo
Description / Table of Contents:
Preface; Contents; Prologue: Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Asian Punch Versions and Related Satirical Journals; Part I: Punch, the Template; The Presence of Punch in the Nineteenth Century; A Brief History of Punch; A Page of Punch; Punch the Brand; Punch and Its Late Victorian Imitators; Why Was Punch So Influential?; Part II: Punch in South Asia; Punch and Indian Cartoons: The Reception of a Transnational Phenomenon; The Possibility of Satire: Reading Pratap Narain Misra´s Brāhma, 1883-1890; Satire in a Colonial Context; The Case of Avadh; Pratap Narain Misra´s Brāhma in Context
Description / Table of Contents:
Social Critique in Unstable SettingsFrom Punch to Matvālā: Transcultural Lives of a Literary Format; Circulation of Punch; Punch as Pañc: Problematising the Transculturality of Punch in the Hindi Literary Sphere; Pañc: Literary Forms and Political Contents; The Context of the Matvālā Moment; Matvālā: The Satiric Narrator; Matvālā as a Brand; A Variety of Literary Forms in the Service of Political Satire; Cartoons in the Twentieth Century: The Case of Matvālā; Matvālā: A Summary; The Punch Tradition in Late Nineteenth Century Bengal: From Pulcinella to Basantak and Pācu; Why Punch?
Description / Table of Contents:
Locating Bengali Punch Versions in Their Socio-Political ContextEarly Bengali Satirical Journals; Publishing Details Basantak; Objectives of the Periodicals; Language; The Narrator Figures; Indigenous Influences on Basantak and Pācu; Self-Image of the Bengalis; The `Other´ Selfhood; Critique of the Colonial Power; Response; Conclusion; Crossing Boundaries: Punch and the Marathi Weekly Hindu Pañca (1870-1909); Introduction; The Narrator Pañcaājobā and His Pañcapatrikā Hindu pañca; The Editor and His Pañca; Issues Addressed in Hindu pañca; The Pañca and the Punch
Description / Table of Contents:
Mr Punch, His Cousin `Brahmin Punchoba´ and the Marathi PañcaājobāPunch in India: Another History of Colonial Politics?; Introduction; India in Punch; Colonial Markets and Imperial Wares; The Eclipsed History of the Indian Punches; Conclusion; Part III: Punch in the Middle East; Insistent Localism in a Satiric World: Shaykh Naggār´s `Reed-Pipe´ in the 1890s Cairene Press; Privileging the Vernacular; Print Cultures, the Press, and Satirical Journalism in Egypt; Genres of Instruction and Invective; Voices of Satire: Zajal as Editorial and as Reader Contribution
Description / Table of Contents:
Social Locations of Satire: Shaykh Naggār and Mr PunchThe Plight of the Newspaper Publisher; Abu Nazzāra´s Journey from Victorious Egypt to Splendorous Paris: The Making of an Arabic Punch; Introduction; The Transcultural Nature of Egyptian Theater; James Sanua, the `Egyptian Molière´ and the `Man with Glasses´; The Genres and Characters of the Rihla; Conclusions; Teodor Kassab´s Adaption of the Ottoman Shadow Theatre Karagöz; Introduction; Changing Formats: The Impact of British and French Satirical Journals on the Ottoman Satirical Press; The Ottoman Shadow Theatre Karagöz
Description / Table of Contents:
The Main Protagonists of Karagöz
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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