Contemporary Militant Black Humor

1974 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 217
Author(s):  
Daryl C. Dance
Keyword(s):  
Black Humor

Research on the Translation of the Black Humor in Yu Hua's Brothers

Linguistics ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-43
Author(s):  
Zheng Zhen ◽  
Wu Jian ◽  
Zhang Yunfei
Keyword(s):  
Black Humor

Dark, but Danish: Ethnopragmatic perspectives on black humor

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 515-531 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carsten Levisen
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Main Function ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Black Humor

Abstract This paper explores sort humor ‘black humor’, a key concept in Danish conversational humor. Sort forms part of a larger class of Danish synesthetic humor metaphors that includes other categories such as tør ‘dry’, syg ‘sick’, and fed ‘fat’. Taking an ethnopragmatic perspective on humor discourse, it is argued that such constructs function as a local catalogue for socially recognized laughing practices. The aim of the paper is to provide a semantic explication for sort humor and explore the discursive practices associated with the concept. From a comparative perspective, it is demonstrated that the Danish conceptualization of “blackness” differs from that of l’humour noir, a category of French surrealism, and English black humor with its off-limit topics such as death and handicap. In Danish discourse, sort humor has come to stand for a practice of collaborative jocular non-sense making. It is further argued that the main function of sort humor is to establish or enhance a feeling of “groupy togetherness”.

scholarly journals Humor or Black Humor? The Use of Humor and Irony in The Financial Expert

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 32-36
Author(s):  
Abel Justine
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Central Character ◽  
Raja Rao ◽  
Financial Expert ◽  
Black Humor

K. Narayan was one of the pioneers of Indo Anglian fiction along with Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao. Their heydays were marked by complicated social issues such as India’s struggle for Independence and the more stressful period afterwards. Among the three, many consider R. K. Narayan as the most realistic in fiction considering Indian settings. The Financial Expert is again considered as Narayan’s masterpiece by many. It’s a well-constructed novel in five parts. The story is focused on three main aspects relating to the central character of Margayya. They are; Margayya’s determination to acquire wealth, his love for his own son Balu and his relationship with his brother and sister in law. It is at times mesmerizing to analyze Narayan’s use of humor and irony in crafting the fate of a normal middle class individual.

scholarly journals HUMOR IN «BROOKLYN 9-9» SERIES. TRANSLATION ASPECT

2019 ◽  
pp. 184-191
Author(s):  
V. V. Konkulovskyy Konkulovskyy ◽  
V. V. Panchenko ◽  
V. V. Savchyshyn
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Lexical Semantic ◽  
Black Humor

The article outlines the peculiarities of humor of the original cinematic texts in «Brooklyn 9-9» series and their translation, as well as analyzes the most typical errors and causes of their occurrence. The «Brooklyn 9-9» series is full of jokes that can be classified as dark or so-called black humor. In the cinematic discourse films filled with such kind of humor are called black comedies. The latter is well-deservedly considered to be one of the most difficult genres of cinema. It is iconic for black comedies to incorporate jokes about different sacred things, such as race, human nature, diseases, funerals, disabilities, death, values and desires whilst this kind of humor is usually forbidden in a more formal setting. When working with cinematic text containing elements of black humor, a translator faces a serious number of problems and tasks. To render a source text into a target language adequately, it is important to identify the genre-stylistic dominant of the cinematic text, and to reproduce story-forming speech acts in different contexts. For black comedy cinematic texts chronotopic, characterological, compositional and lexical-semantic contexts will be relevant. According to these, the examples of black humor and puns in «Brooklyn 9-9» series were analyzed.

scholarly journals With dark humor about a dark future

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-29
Author(s):  
Radka Stahr ◽  
Anne Marlene Hastenplug
Keyword(s):  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Dystopian Literature ◽  
Dark Humor ◽  
Black Humor ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract This article analyses the relationship between black humor and dystopian literature. In dystopia, humor can appear on the surface as language or situational comics, but there is also a deeper link between these two literary phenomena: they confront the reader with an unexpected notion in order to bring him to a critical reflection. There are many dystopias in the Nordic literature that use comic elements. Three of them are discussed in this article: Axel Jensens Epp (1965), Lena Anderssons Duck City (2006) and Kaspar Colling Nielsens Den danske borgerkrig 2018–24 (2013). The analysis shows that classic black humor is enriched with other tragicomic, satirical or surrealistic elements and significantly contributes to the critical tone of the text. In all cases humor is used for the same purpose, and this is a critique of superior power (the so-called superiority theory). Therefore, humor can be considered not only as a stylistic means, but also as a principle of construction of the dystopian works.

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