Publications – Dr. Izuu Nwankwọ

Books

Hammett, D., Martin, L., & Nwankwọ, I. Humour and Politics in Africa: Beyond Resistance. Bristol: Bristol UP, 2023.

Nwankwọ, I. ed. Stand-up Comedy in Africa: Humour in Popular Languages and Media. Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag, 2022.

Nwankwọ, I. Yabbing and Wording: The Artistry of Nigerian Stand-up Comedy. Makhanda: NISC Press, 2021.

 

Journal Publications [2019-2023]

Nwankwọ, I. “Traditions of Naming in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Fiction.”  Postcolonial Text, Manuscript Submission ID 2803.

Nwankwọ, I. “Ambivalence in the Stand-up Acts of Nigeria’s Mr Paul and Klint da Drunk.” JALA: Journal of African Literature Association, vol. 16, no. 2, 2022, pp. 332-347, https://doi.org/10.1080/21674736.2022.2067735

Nwankwọ, I. “Self-censorship and Shifting Cognitions of Offence in the Stand-up Acts of Basket Mouth and Trevor Noah.” Journal of African Cultural Studies, vol. 34, no. 2, 2022, pp. 129-142,  https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2021.1968806

Nwankwọ, I. “Joke Performance Mechanics in Nigerian Stand-up Comedy.” South African Theatre Journal, vol. 34, no. 2, 2021, pp. 99-112, https://doi.org/10.1080/10137548.2022.2051731

Nwankwọ, I. E. “Re-engaging Master Narratives: Re-encountering Shakespeare’s The Tempest in Esiaba Irobi’s Sycorax.” The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, vol. 56, no. 2, 2021, pp. 218-233, https://doi.org/10.1177/0021989418804863

Nwankwo, I. “Incongruous Liaisons: Routes of Humour, Insult and Political (In)Correctness in Nigerian Stand-up Jokes.” The European Journal of Humour Research, vol. 7, no. 2, 2019, https://doi.org/10.7592/EJHR2019.7.2.nwankwo

 

Book Chapters

Nwankwọ, I. “Introduction – Old Wine in a New Bottle: Stand-up Comedy and Its Dispersal across Africa.” Stand-up Comedy in Africa: Humour in Popular Languages and Media. Ed. I. Nwankwọ, pp. 11-42. Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag, 2022.

Tunca, D., Nwankwọ, I. “Confronting Racism in Cécile Djunga and Trevor Noah’s Stand-up Comedy.” Stand-up Comedy in Africa: Humour in Popular Languages and Media. Ed. I. Nwankwọ, pp. 45-66. Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag, 2022.