Overview
- Reviews the evolution of satire in the post-Soviet period
- Examines various forms of satirical protest in today’s Russia
- Discusses the ambiguity of satire and its relation to critique and protest, but also to censorship and propaganda
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Satire as Protest
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book studies satirical protest in today’s Russia, addressing the complex questions of the limits of allowed humor, the oppressive mechanisms deployed by the State and pro-State agents as well as counterstrategies of cultural resistance. What forms of satirical protest are there? Is there State-sanctioned satire? Can satire be associated with propaganda? How is satire related to myth? Is satirical protest at all effective?—these are some of the questions the authors tackle in this book. The first part presents an overview of the evolution of satire on stage, on the Internet and on television on the background of the changing post-Soviet media landscape in the Putin era. Part Two consists of five studies of satirical protest in music, poetry and public protests.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Aleksei Semenenko is Associate Professor in Russian at Umeå University. He is the author of The Texture of Culture: An Introduction to Yuri Lotman’s Semiotic Theory (2012), Hamlet the Sign: Russian Translations of Hamlet and Literary Canon Formation (2007), Aksenov and the Environs (coedited with Lars Kleberg; 2012) and other works on Russian culture, translation and semiotics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Satire and Protest in Putin’s Russia
Editors: Aleksei Semenenko
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76279-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-76278-0Published: 02 December 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-76281-0Published: 03 December 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-76279-7Published: 30 November 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXIX, 197
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Communication, European Politics