Power and Ridicule – Elena CeauȘescu in Communist Humour

Q4 Social Sciences

Gender Studies Pub Date : 2019-12-01 DOI:10.2478/genst-2020-0010

Gabriela Glăvan

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Abstract

Abstract Although one of the most influential figures of Romanian Communism, Elena Ceaușescu has been the subject of a rather limited literature exploring her historical figure. I intend to revisit the political humour of Romanian communism in order to reveal the manners and strategies employed by this type of folklore in affirming the hyperbolized clichés that defined the dictator’s wife in the public mind of that age. I also intend to bring into discussion the common traditional prejudice that blamed Elena Ceaușescu for her husband’s catastrophic politics that impoverished and isolated Romania in the Eastern Bloc.

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权力与嘲笑——埃琳娜CeauȘescu共产主义幽默

虽然埃琳娜Ceaușescu是罗马尼亚共产主义最具影响力的人物之一，但对她的历史人物的研究却相当有限。我打算重新审视罗马尼亚共产主义的政治幽默，以揭示这种类型的民间传说所采用的方式和策略，以肯定在那个时代的公众心中定义独裁者妻子的夸张的陈词滥调。我还打算讨论一种普遍的传统偏见，这种偏见将埃琳娜Ceaușescu归咎于她丈夫的灾难性政治，使罗马尼亚在东欧集团中陷入贫困和孤立。

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Gender Studies Social Sciences-Gender Studies

CiteScore

0.30

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0.00%

发文量

157

审稿时长

14 weeks

期刊介绍： Gender Studies is a journal addressing academics and a general readership at the same time and its main goal is to provide a gendered approach to literature, language and society and also to highlight attempts of educationalists and Gender Studies esperts in various parts of the world to institutionalize Gender Studies in the academe. The GS journal publishes high-quality peer-reviewed articles from various Humanities and Social Sciences areas. The GS journal is interdisciplinary—gender proving an excellent analytical category enabling a new perspective on literature, anthropology, social and political studies, cultural studies, linguistics and mass media studies. The GS journal provides state-of-the-art research in all such fields.