Rachelle Okawa
Biographic Data
| ID | 236969 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachelle Okawa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachelle |
| FAMILY NAME | Okawa |
| SIGNATURE | OKAWA R |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 1 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Humour in exile
This study challenges the common misconception of laughter as simply light-hearted entertainment by exploring its strategic use and subversive effects in two Caribbean novels: Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners and Gisèle Pineau’s L’Exil selon Julia. Selvon’s and Pineau’s humorous depictions of the migration to the metropolitan centres of London and Paris after World War II of two elderly female figures, Tanty Bessy and Man Ya, both bring to light…
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Humour in exile
This study challenges the common misconception of laughter as simply light-hearted entertainment by exploring its strategic use and subversive effects in two Caribbean novels: Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners and Gisèle Pineau’s L’Exil selon Julia. Selvon’s and Pineau’s humorous depictions of the migration to the metropolitan centres of London and Paris after World War II of two elderly female figures, Tanty Bessy and Man Ya, both bring to light…
Art (1 works) · History (1 works) · Laughter (1 works) · Literature (1 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (1 works) · Travel Writing and Literature (1 works)