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Creative Resistance Politic...
During the uprisings of the Arab Spring between 2010 and 2012, oppositional movements used political humor to criticize political leaders or to expose the absurdities of the socio-political conditions. These humorous expressions in various art forms such as poetry, stand-up comedy, street art, music, caricatures, cartoons, comics and puppet shows were further distributed in the social media. This first comprehensive study of political humor in the uprisings explores the varieties and functions of political humor as a creative tool for resistance. It analyzes humorous forms of cultural expression and their impact on socio-political developments in different countries of the Middle East and North Africa with a special focus on the changing modes of humor
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monografia Rebiun33071073 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun33071073 m|||||o||d|||||||| cr#cnu|||||||| 220221s2020 gw o ||| 0 eng d 3-8394-4069-6 10.14361/9783839440698 doi UAM 991008245260404211 CBUC 991013457570506708 DE-B1597 eng DE-B1597 rda eng gw DE SOC026000 bisacsh 1p 320 DE-101 Creative Resistance Political Humor in the Arab Uprisings Sabine Damir-Geilsdorf, Stephan Milich 1st ed Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2020 Bielefeld Bielefeld transcript Verlag 1 online resource (330 pages) illustrations 1 online resource (330 pages) Text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Edition Kulturwissenschaft 153 Includes bibliographical references Frontmatter 1 Content 5 Forms and Functions of Political Humor in Arab Societies 9 Beyond Tanfis 53 Humor, Mockery and Defamation in Western Sahara 79 "We Started to Celebrate Being Egyptian" 103 From Equanimity to Agony 131 A Festival of Resistance 153 Towards an Understanding of the Role of Political Satire in Sudan 171 "Candies from Eastern Ghouta" 191 If a Duck is Drawn in the Desert, Does Anybody See It? 223 Dealing with Politics in Palestine 243 From Kuwait's Margins to Tolaytila's Mainstream 259 A Critique of Religious Sectarianism through Satire 297 Authors 327 During the uprisings of the Arab Spring between 2010 and 2012, oppositional movements used political humor to criticize political leaders or to expose the absurdities of the socio-political conditions. These humorous expressions in various art forms such as poetry, stand-up comedy, street art, music, caricatures, cartoons, comics and puppet shows were further distributed in the social media. This first comprehensive study of political humor in the uprisings explores the varieties and functions of political humor as a creative tool for resistance. It analyzes humorous forms of cultural expression and their impact on socio-political developments in different countries of the Middle East and North Africa with a special focus on the changing modes of humor 1\u Sabine Damir-Geilsdorf is Professor for Middle Eastern Studies and Director of the Institute of Middle Eastern and South East Asian Studies at the University of Cologne. She obtained her PhD in Islamic Studies with a thesis on the Egyptian Islamist Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966) and received her postdoctoral qualification degree (Habilitation) with a study on Palestinian narratives of the Arab-Israeli war 1948. She has carried out field research in various countries of the Middle East and has published widely on transformations of religious concepts, Islamism, (forced) migration in the Middle East, Islam in Germany, and popular culture in Middle Eastern societies 2\u Stephan Milich is senior lecturer in Arabic Literature and Islamic Studies the University of Cologne. His research interests include contemporary Arabic poetry and prose, culture and ideology as well as representations and concepts of exile and trauma in Arabic literature. He has published widely on modern Arab poetry and translated a number of literary works by contemporary Arab authors such as Mahmoud Darwish, Mohammed Bennis, Rosa Yassin Hassan into German. He currently works on representations of trauma in contemporary Arabic fiction with a special interest in `trauma politics' as well as on German orientalism and `orient politics' in WWI In English Arab Spring; Political Humor; Arab Cultural Production; Satire; Art; Popular Culture; Politics; Political Art; Globalization; Cultural Studies 1\u Damir-Geilsdorf, Sabine editor. edt 2\u Milich, Stephan editor. edt 3-8376-4069-8 Culture & theory Volume 153