Avant-garde humour as ideological supplement

Q2 Social Sciences
Alejandro Romero-Reche
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In 1939, when the Spanish civil war had recently ended, avant-garde humorists Miguel Mihura and Tono published an absurdist propaganda ‘novel’, María de la Hoz [María of the Sickle], about the republican zone during the conflict. Unlike other Francoist propaganda pieces of the time, it did not focus on the violence or the alleged moral degeneracy of the ‘reds’ but rather on what its authors perceived as the absurdity of egalitarianism and the progressive ideals. The novel, while not contradicting the emerging official ideology, conspicuously overlooked some of its key tenets, particularly those related to nationalism, Catholicism and Franco’s leadership. This article contextualises María de la Hoz in the development process of Spanish avant-garde humour and in Francoist propaganda fiction during and immediately after the civil war in order to analyse the ideological stance it represented and, potentially, reinforced. As a political piece, the book seems to convey the position of an affluent middle class who did not enthusiastically believe in Francoism but preferred it to the republican alternative, caricatured as a communist regime by nationalist propaganda.
前卫幽默作为意识形态补充
1939年,西班牙内战刚刚结束,先锋幽默作家米格尔·米胡拉和托诺出版了一部荒诞派宣传“小说”《镰刀的玛丽亚》,讲述了冲突期间的共和国地区。与当时的其他法语宣传片不同,它没有关注“红色”的暴力或所谓的道德堕落,而是关注其作者所认为的平等主义和进步理想的荒谬。这部小说虽然没有与新兴的官方意识形态相矛盾,但明显忽视了其中的一些关键原则,尤其是与民族主义、天主教和佛朗哥领导层有关的原则。本文将玛丽亚·德拉霍兹置于西班牙先锋幽默的发展过程中,以及内战期间和内战后的法语宣传小说中,以分析其所代表的意识形态立场,并可能得到加强。作为一篇政治文章,这本书似乎传达了富裕中产阶级的立场,他们并不热衷于信奉法语,但更喜欢法语,而不是被民族主义宣传讽刺为共产主义政权的共和党。
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European Journal of Humour Research
European Journal of Humour Research Social Sciences-Cultural Studies
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1.10
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发文量
34
审稿时长
6 weeks
期刊介绍: The European Journal of Humour Research (EJHR) is a peer-reviewed quarterly journal with an international multidisciplinary editorial board. Although geographically-oriented towards the ˋold continentˊ, the European perspective aims at an international readership and contributors. EJHR covers the full range of work being done on all aspects of humour phenomenon. EJHR is designed to respond to the important changes that have affected the study of humour but particular predominance is given to the past events and current developments in Europe.
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