
War, Memory, and the Politics of Humor
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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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Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: War, Lies, and Newsprint
1. Satire and Censorship
2. Verbal and Visual, Humor and Politics: Organization as Discourse
3. Unstuffing Skulls: The Canard versus the Mass Press
4. The Tears of L'Intran: Semiotic Hijacking and Wartime Anxieties
5. Soldiers versus Profiteers: Class War as Patriotism
6. In Vino Veritas: De la Fouchardière, Bicard, and the Politics of Inebriation
7. Peace or Postwar: The Next Last War
8. Web of Memory
9. Between Cannibalism and Resurrection: The Body of the Unknown Soldier
10. Anti-Imperialism and Its Stereotypes: War in the Colonies
11. Politics as Usual: An Antiparliamentarism of the Left?
12. Canard Economics, or the Costs of the War
13. The Wealth of Nations
14. Conclusion: Politics of Humor, Politics of Memory
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