War, memory, and the politics of humor the Canard enchaine and World War I - Douglas, Allen (University of California Press, 2002)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: WAR, LIES, AND NEWSPRINT -- 1. SATIRE AND CENSORSHIP -- 2. VERBAL AND VISUAL, HUMOR AND POLITICS: ORGANIZATION AS DISCOURSE -- 3. UNSTUFFING SKULLS: THE CANARD VERSUS THE MASS PRESS -- 4. THE TEARS OF LINTRAN: SEMIOTIC HIJACKING AND WARTIME ANXIETIES -- 5. SOLDIERS VERSUS PROFITEERS: CLASS WAR AS PATRIOTISM -- 6. IN VINO VERITAS: DE LA FOUCHARDI200;RE, BICARD, AND THE POLITICS OF INEBRIATION -- 7. PEACE OR POSTWAR: THE NEXT LAST WAR -- 8. WEB OF MEMORY -- 9. BETWEEN CANNIBALISM AND RESURRECTION: THE BODY OF THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER -- 10. ANTI-IMPERIALISM AND ITS STEREOTYPES: WAR IN THE COLONIES -- 11. POLITICS AS USUAL: AN ANTIPARLIAMENTARISM OF THE LEFT? -- 12. CANARD ECONOMICS, OR THE COSTS OF THE WAR -- 13. THE WEALTH OF NATIONS -- 14. CONCLUSION: POLITICS OF HUMOR, POLITICS OF MEMORY
War, 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