New Indian Nuttahs Comedy and Cultural Critique in Millennial India /

• Main Author: Kay, Kavyta (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Comedy
• Subjects: Popular Culture.; Cultural policy.; Culture-Study and teaching.; Ethnology-Asia.; Comedy.; Popular Culture .; Cultural Policy and Politics.; Cultural Theory.; Asian Culture.; Comedy Studies.

This book takes a journey into the new and exciting created by a the wave of Indian comedians today, described affectionately here as the New Indian Nuttahs, and looks at what these tell us about identity, "Indianness", censorship, feminism, diaspora and millennial India. It provides a uni...

Table of Contents:

• 1. 'New' India and the nuttahs
• 2. Riffing India Comedy, Identity, and Censorship
• 3. Women in internet comedy
• 4. Down to brown: A footnote on British Asian and South Asian American comedy
• 5. The currency of comedy.