War, Memory, and the Politics of Humor: The Canard Enchaîné and World War IWar, 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. |
Contents
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1 SATIRE AND CENSORSHIP | 21 |
ORGANIZATION AS DISCOURSE | 37 |
THE CANARD VERSUS THE MASS PRESS | 51 |
SEMIOTIC HIJACKING AND WARTIME ANXIETIES | 71 |
CLASS WAR AS PATRIOTISM | 83 |
DE LA FOUCHARDIÈRE BICARD AND THE POLITICS OF INEBRIATION | 98 |
THE NEXT LAST WAR | 116 |
THE BODY OF THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER | 154 |
WAR IN THE COLONIES | 168 |
AN ANTIPARLIAMENTARISM OF THE LEFT? | 184 |
12 CANARD ECONOMICS OR THE COSTS OF THE WAR | 210 |
13 THE WEALTH OF NATIONS | 231 |
POLITICS OF HUMOR POLITICS OF MEMORY | 247 |
Notes | 267 |
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