War, Memory, and the Politics of Humor: The Canard Enchaine and World War I (Adobe Reader) ebook download Allen Douglas

War, Memory, and the Politics of Humor: The Canard Enchaine and World War I

War, Memory, and the Politics of Humor features carnage and cannibalism, gender and cross-dressing, drunks and heroes, militarism and memory, all set against the background of World War I France. Allen Douglas shows how a new satiric weekly, the Canard Enchaîné, exploited these topics and others to become one of France's most influential voices of reaction to the Great War. The Canard, still published today, is France's leading satiric newspaper and the most successful periodical of the twentieth century, and Douglas colorfully illuminates the mechanisms of its unique style.Following the Canard from its birth in 1915 to the eve of the Great Depression, the narrative reveals a heady mix of word play, word games, and cartoons. Over the years the journal--generally leftist, specifically antimilitarist and anti-imperialist--aimed its shots in all directions, using some stereotypes the twenty-first century might find unacceptable. But Douglas calls its humor an affirmation of life, and as such the most effective antidote to war.

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Title of ebook: War, Memory, and the Politics of Humor: The Canard Enchaine and World War I
ISBN: 9780520926943
parent-ISBN: 9780520228764
Publisher: University of California Press
Internet download file size: 2010 kb
Published: 05-2002
Released online for download: 05-31-2002
Author of eBook: Douglas, Allen

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