Bancul Politic Ca Formă Literară De Rezistență Față De Regimul Comunist
Year: 2024
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Summary. This article evaluates the role of political jokes as a literary form of resistance anddissent against the 20th-century communist regime, highlighting how they served as subversive tools against oppressive propaganda. It examines how political jokes subversively revealed the harshrealities and absurdities of life under the communist regime, while Soviet propaganda attempted topresent an idealized image of communist society. Based on illustrative examples, such as a propaganda letter from the Propaganda and Agitation Section of the Central Committee of the CommunistParty of Moldova (CC of CPM) and several political jokes drawn from the works of Russian authors,we will analyze the literary and rhetorical devices through which these jokes revealed the tensionsand contradictions within Soviet society. The aim is to demonstrate how political jokes functionedas a means of resistance against the communist regime, emphasizing their role in uncovering hiddentruths and critiquing oppressive propaganda.Key words: Political joke, literary form of resistance, socialist realism, irony
Author: Ana Maria RUSNAC
Language: English
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6892961626
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