Asian Punches: A Transcultural Affair [Paperback]

This book deals with Punches and Punch-like magazines in 19th and 20th century Asia, covering an area from Egypt and the Ottoman Empire in the West via British India up to China and Japan in the East. It traces an alternative and largely unacknowledged side of the history of this popular British periodical, and simultaneously casts a wide-reaching comparative glance on the genesis? of satirical journalism in various Asian countries. Demonstrating the spread of both textual and visual satire, it is an apt demonstration of the transcultural trajectory of a format intimately linked to media-bound public spheres evolving in the period concerned.This book explores an alternative, largely unacknowledged side of the history of the popular British periodical, and offers a comparative view of the genesis?of satirical journalism from Egypt and the Ottoman Empire through British India to China and Japan.Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Asian Punch Versions and Related Satirical Journals.- Part I: Punch, the Template.- The Presence of Punch in the Nineteenth Century.- Part II: Punch in South Asia.- Punch and Indian Cartoons:The reception of a transnational phenomenon.- The Possibility of Satire: Reading Pratap Narain Misras Br
hmaG, 1883-1890.- From Punch to Mat?v
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: Transcultural Lives of a Literary Format.- The Punch Tradition in Late Nineteenth Century Bengal: From Pulcinella to Basantak and P
cu.- Crossing the Boundaries: Punch and the Marathi Weekly Hindu Pa?ca (1870-1909).- Punch in India: Another History of Colonial Politics?.- Part III: Punch in the Middle East.- Insistent Localism in a Satiric World: Shaykh Nagg
rs Reed-Pipe in the 1890s Cairene Press.- Abu Nazzaras Journey from Victorious Egypt to Splendorous Paris: The Making of an Arabic Punch.- Teodor Kasabs Ottoman Adaptation of the Ottoman Shadow Theatre Karag?z.- Whats in a Name? Branding Punch in Cairo, 1908.- Part IV: Punch in East Asia.- Punch PicturesLocalising Punch in Meiji Japan.- Punchsl£`