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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, New York :
Cornell University Press,
2022.
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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.