Touching Spaces in Textures: Affective Humor and Dialogism in Contemporary Literature

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Mariam Popal

Touching Spaces in Textures

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Affective Humor and Dialogism in Contemporary Literature

Mariam Popal

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Transcript Verlag
10 March 2026

Literary theory; Literary studies: general; National liberation & independence, post-colonialism

Series: Literary Theory

Touch has manifold layers of meaning, especially so in the context of the affectivity unleashed by humor, where often touching spaces ensue in deconstructive ways that affect the senses as well as sense-making. Along these lines, Mariam Popal discusses the works of bell hooks, Friedrich Nietzsche, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Jacques Derrida and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, among others. She combines them with close readings of literary texts to open up venues for the performativity of rhetorically and poetologically generated critical, transformative thought that also pays attention to the ethics of dialogism, as well as the relation between philosophy and literature.

By: Mariam Popal
Imprint: Transcript Verlag
Country of Publication: Germany
Dimensions: Height: 24mm, Width: 16mm,
Weight: 690g
ISBN: 9783837672619
ISBN 10: 3837672611
Series: Literary Theory
Pages: 498
Publication Date: 10 March 2026
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Mariam Popal is associate professor (PDin) in comparative literature/world literature at the Universität Bayreuth. She holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. from the Universität Hamburg and a habilitation (second thesis) in general & comparative literature from the Universität Bayreuth. She is a member of the Cluster of Excellence Africa Multiple, and an associate scholar in american studies at the Universität Potsdam. She has taught and conducted research at the Universität Freiburg, the Universität Basel, the University of Toronto, the Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture, and the University of Alberta.