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Authoritarian Laughter : Political Humor and Soviet Dystopia in Lithuania /

"This book explores the authoritarian state project to create an official humor culture in Soviet Lithuania in 1956-1984. It focuses on the satire and humor magazine Broom (Sluota), which created multidirectional laughter and was a forum for a critical public united in anti-Soviet revolutionary...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Klumbytė, Neringa, 1974- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2022.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Banality of Soviet power
  • Political intimacy
  • The Soviet predicament
  • Censorial indistinction
  • Political aesthetics
  • Multidirectional laughter
  • Satirical Justice
  • Soviet dystopia
  • Post scriptum: Revolution and post-authoritarian laughter
  • Conclusion: Lost laughter and authoritarian stigma.