Creative Resistance: Political Humor in the Arab Uprisings (Culture & Theory) - Softcover

Sabine Damir-Geilsdorf; Stephan Milich

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3837640698 ISBN 13: 9783837640694

Publisher: Transcript Verlag, 2020

Synopsis

During the uprisings of the Arab Spring between 2010 and 2012, oppositional movements used political humor to criticize political leaders or to expose the absurdities of the socio-political conditions. These humorous expressions in various art forms such as poetry, stand-up comedy, street art, music, caricatures, cartoons, comics and puppet shows were further distributed in the social media. This first comprehensive study of political humor in the uprisings explores the varieties and functions of political humor as a creative tool for resistance. It analyzes humorous forms of cultural expression and their impact on socio-political developments in different countries of the Middle East and North Africa with a special focus on the changing modes of humor.

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About the Author

Sabine Damir-Geilsdorf has held the chair of Islamic Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies at the University of Cologne since 2012. Her main research interests include transformations of religious concepts in Muslim societies, Islamism, migration to the Arab Gulf states, Islam in Germany, and popular culture in Middle Eastern societies. Stephan Milich teaches modern Arabic culture and Islamic studies at the University of Cologne. His research interests include contemporary Arabic poetry and prose, culture and ideology as well as representations and concepts of exile and trauma in Arabic literature. He has published widely on modern Arab poetry and translated a number of literary works by contemporary Arab authors such as Mahmoud Darwish, Mohammed Bennis, Rosa Yassin Hassan into German. He currently works on representations of trauma in contemporary Arabic prose with a special interest in `trauma politics' as well as on German orientalism and `orient politics' in WWI.

Edition details

• Publisher: Transcript Verlag
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3837640698
• ISBN 13: 9783837640694
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 332
• Editor: Sabine Damir-Geilsdorf, Stephan Milich