Neringa Klumbyte

Authoritarian Laughter

Political Humor and Soviet Dystopia in Lithuania

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"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 laughter in the late 1980s"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 153mm x 227mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 470g
• ISBN-13: 9781501766695
• ISBN-10: 1501766694
• Artikelnr.: 65330850

Autorenporträt

Neringa Klumbyt¿

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Authoritarian Laughter
1. Banality of Soviet Power
2. Political Intimacy
3. The Soviet Predicament
4. Censorial Indistinction
5. Political Aesthetics
6. Multidirectional Laughter
7. Satirical Justice
8. Soviet Dystopia
Post Scriptum: Revolution and Post-authoritarian Laughter
Conclusion: Lost Laughter and Authoritarian Stigma