Seriously Funny : Mexican Political Jokes as Social Resistance /
"Exploring the ways in which political humor has developed and operated in Mexico over more than four centuries, this is groundbreaking work argues persuasively that political jokes are acts of rebellion: their objective is not to overthrow a government but to correct its mistakes"--
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Español |
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Tucson :
The University of Arizona Press,
[2014]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | "Exploring the ways in which political humor has developed and operated in Mexico over more than four centuries, this is groundbreaking work argues persuasively that political jokes are acts of rebellion: their objective is not to overthrow a government but to correct its mistakes"-- |
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Notas: | "Originally published as Humor en serio by Aguilar Nuevo Siglo, 1996. A second edition, retitled En la mira, was published by Taurus, 2006." |
Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (295 pages). |
ISBN: | 9780816598816 |