Seriously Funny Mexican Political Jokes as Social Resistance [#451767]

Samuel Schmidt, Adam Schmidt, "Seriously Funny: Mexican Political Jokes as Social Resistance"
English | 2014 | pages: 296 | ISBN: 0816530777 | PDF | 0,9 mb
Political jokes exist around the world and across many types of political systems. But what purposes do they serve? Do they have an impact on politics-or on politicians? Surprisingly, scholars have paid scant attention to these significant questions. And, until the publication of this book, no one had ever systematically studied political humor in Mexico. When the first edition of this work was published in Mexico, it caused a stir. Elected officials, it turned out, had grudgingly accepted that they and their politics could be the target of jokes uttered in public, and even on television, but they were incensed that a leading academic had collected political jokes into a book and analyzed their function in a country that had experienced nearly a century of one-party rule.