أطراس
Volume 6, Numéro 1, Pages 40-45
2025-01-15
‘put Your Hands In The Air! And Keep Them There’: A Critical Discourse Analysis Of Anti-racism In Black Standup Comedy As Illustrated In The Work Of Trevor Noah
Authors : Arabet Mohamed Akram .
Abstract
The present article investigates the use of anti-racist humor as a form of resistance. More specifically, it looks into the workings of anti-racism to challenge the prejudice that is held against black people. The focus is on the linguistic aspect of anti-racist resistance. The study analyses two shows of Trevor Noah, a black standup comedian, in light of the forty-five techniques used by comedians. The successful incorporation of many humor techniques in tackling and reversing the sensitive issues of racism and prejudice explain why such a genre of comedy is popular among audiences. Noah, according to the findings, has indeed incorporated many of those techniques to give his jokes the intended impact on the audience. These techniques, giving prominence to the jokes, can help better understand the racial stereotypes within societies marked by racism, thus, leading to more efficient approaches to addressing it.
Keywords
Anti-racism ; Black Standup Comedy ; Humor Techniques ; Humor Discourse ; Resistance ; Racism ; Stereotypes
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