Politics of Recognition and Representation in Indian Stand-Up Comedy

Richa Chilana is Senior Assistant Professor at School of Liberal Studies, UPES, Dehradun, India.Rashi Bhargava is Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology, North Eastern Hill University (NEHU), Shillong, India.

• Introduction by Richa Chilana and Rashi Bhargava.- Laughing about and from the Periphery.- Das, Shayeri- Disparagement Humour as a Means for Social Exclusion: Examining the Day-to-Day Casteism in Indian Stand-Up Comedy .- Chakravarti, Mahashweta-The ‘Serious Business of Comedy’: Indian Female Stand-Up Comedians and their Political Roles.- Rele Sathe, Namrata-Creeping on You: The Politics of the Messy Woman in the comedy of Sumukhi Suresh.- Pande, Neha-What’s funny to Daniel Fernandes might not be funny to Aditi Mittal.- Politics of Language and Wordplay.- Banerjett, Maumita-Jokes for all: Language, and Challenges of Contemporary Indian Stand-up Comedy.- Jyothsna, K S -L for Librocubicularist: Soul searching with key words that nobody is searching for.- Where do we draw the line-Patel, Arun- New Clowns in Town: Stand-up comics as parrhesiastes and flatters.- Singh, Pankaj-Struggles of Indian Stand-up Comedians to Find the Line.- Comedy and Contact Zones.- Ishtiaq, Shanzeh-Comedy Across the Borders/Cracking(up) Queer Comedy in Pakistan and India.- Kay, Kavyta-Representing Brown Britain – Asian voices in British Comedy.- Nair, Ashwathy-Creating Contact Zones via Stand-up Comedy: Defamiliarizing the Construct of ‘India’.- Miller, Zubin - The ritual of comedy: expressions from the young Indian middle-class.