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Written by a scholar of satire and politics, Trump Was a Joke
explains why satire is an exceptional foil for absurd political
times and why it did a particularly good job of making sense of
Trump. Covering a range of comedic interventions, it analyzes why
political satire is surprisingly effective at keeping us sane when
politics is making us crazy. Its goal is to highlight the unique
power of political satire to encourage critical thinking, foster
civic action, and further rational debate in moments of political
hubris and hysteria. The book has been endorsed by Bassem Youssef,
referred to as the Jon Stewart of Egypt, and Srdja Popovic, author
of Blueprint for Revolution, who used satirical activism to bring
down Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic. With a foreword by
award-winning filmmaker, satirist and activist Michael Moore, this
study will be of interest to readers who follow politics and enjoy
political comedy and will appeal to the communications, comedy
studies, media studies, political science, rhetoric, cultural
studies, and American studies markets.
The alt-right movement in the United States has actively been
endorsing the use of left theory to achieve its ends—and with
varying degrees of success. Tracing occasions where figures on the
alt-right reference left theory, this volume asks if the
alt-right’s reference of left theory is just bad reading, or are
there troubling ways that certain types of left theory encourage
such interpretations? What if the connections between left theory
and the alt-right lie in the shared disdain for certain types of
institutions, structures of power, and the status quo? Are there
lessons to be learned in what can often appear as an overlapping
desire to deconstruct concepts like truth, justice, freedom, and
democracy? Drawing on the longer history of right-wing readings of
left theory, this volume seeks to unpack these recent developments
and consider their impact on the future of theory.
Written by a scholar of satire and politics, Trump Was a Joke
explains why satire is an exceptional foil for absurd political
times and why it did a particularly good job of making sense of
Trump. Covering a range of comedic interventions, it analyzes why
political satire is surprisingly effective at keeping us sane when
politics is making us crazy. Its goal is to highlight the unique
power of political satire to encourage critical thinking, foster
civic action, and further rational debate in moments of political
hubris and hysteria. The book has been endorsed by Bassem Youssef,
referred to as the Jon Stewart of Egypt, and Srdja Popovic, author
of Blueprint for Revolution, who used satirical activism to bring
down Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic. With a foreword by
award-winning filmmaker, satirist and activist Michael Moore, this
study will be of interest to readers who follow politics and enjoy
political comedy and will appeal to the communications, comedy
studies, media studies, political science, rhetoric, cultural
studies, and American studies markets.
The alt-right movement in the United States has actively been
endorsing the use of left theory to achieve its ends—and with
varying degrees of success. Tracing occasions where figures on the
alt-right reference left theory, this volume asks if the
alt-right’s reference of left theory is just bad reading, or are
there troubling ways that certain types of left theory encourage
such interpretations? What if the connections between left theory
and the alt-right lie in the shared disdain for certain types of
institutions, structures of power, and the status quo? Are there
lessons to be learned in what can often appear as an overlapping
desire to deconstruct concepts like truth, justice, freedom, and
democracy? Drawing on the longer history of right-wing readings of
left theory, this volume seeks to unpack these recent developments
and consider their impact on the future of theory.
"Neoliberalism, Education, Terrorism: Contemporary Dialogues" is a
collaborative effort among four established public intellectuals
who deeply care about the future of education in America and who
are concerned about the dangerous effects of neoliberalism on
American society and culture. It aims to provide a clear, concise,
and thought-provoking account of the problems facing education in
America under the dual shadows of neoliberalism and terrorism.
Through collaborative and individual essays, the authors provide a
provocative account that will be of interest to anyone who
concerning with the opportunities and dangers facing the future of
education at this critical moment in history.
Studying the case of Latin American cinema, this book analyzes one
of the most public - and most exportable- forms of postcolonial
national culture to argue that millennial era globalization demands
entirely new frameworks for thinking about the relationship between
politics, culture, and economic policies. Concerns that
globalization would bring the downfall of national culture were
common in the 1990s as economies across the globe began
implementing neoliberal, free market policies and abolishing state
protections for culture industries. Simultaneously, new
technologies and the increased mobility of people and information
caused others to see globalization as an era of heightened
connectivity and progressive contact. Twenty-five years later, we
are now able to examine the actual impact of globalization on local
and regional cultures, especially those of postcolonial societies.
Tracing the full life-cycle of films and studying blockbusters like
City of God, Motorcycle Diaries, and Children of Men this book
argues that neoliberal globalization has created a highly
ambivalent space for cultural expression, one willing to market
against itself as long as the stories sell. The result is an
innovative and ground-breaking text suited to scholars interested
in globalization studies, Latin-American studies and film studies.
Studying the case of Latin American cinema, this book analyzes one
of the most public - and most exportable- forms of postcolonial
national culture to argue that millennial era globalization demands
entirely new frameworks for thinking about the relationship between
politics, culture, and economic policies. Concerns that
globalization would bring the downfall of national culture were
common in the 1990s as economies across the globe began
implementing neoliberal, free market policies and abolishing state
protections for culture industries. Simultaneously, new
technologies and the increased mobility of people and information
caused others to see globalization as an era of heightened
connectivity and progressive contact. Twenty-five years later, we
are now able to examine the actual impact of globalization on local
and regional cultures, especially those of postcolonial societies.
Tracing the full life-cycle of films and studying blockbusters like
City of God, Motorcycle Diaries, and Children of Men this book
argues that neoliberal globalization has created a highly
ambivalent space for cultural expression, one willing to market
against itself as long as the stories sell. The result is an
innovative and ground-breaking text suited to scholars interested
in globalization studies, Latin-American studies and film studies.
The Lawrence and Lynne Brown Democracy Medal, presented by the
McCourtney Institute for Democracy at Penn State, recognizes
outstanding individuals, groups, and organizations that produce
innovations to further democracy in the United States or around the
world. The 2020 Brown Democracy Medal winner, Srdja Popovic, was a
leader in the revolution that brought down the Milošević regime
in Serbia and he continues to help protestors around the world
learn effective, sometimes humorous, nonviolent tactics. In 2020,
he teamed up with Sophia A. McClennen to study the concept of
"dilemma actions," which offers a structured, strategic approach to
fighting back against authoritarianism, as well as for defending
democracy.
"Neoliberalism, Education, Terrorism: Contemporary Dialogues" is a
collaborative effort among four established public intellectuals
who deeply care about the future of education in America and who
are concerned about the dangerous effects of neoliberalism on
American society and culture. It aims to provide a clear, concise,
and thought-provoking account of the problems facing education in
America under the dual shadows of neoliberalism and terrorism.
Through collaborative and individual essays, the authors provide a
provocative account that will be of interest to anyone who
concerning with the opportunities and dangers facing the future of
education at this critical moment in history.
Written in the context of critical dialogues about the war on
terror and the global crisis in human rights violations, authors of
the collected volume Representing Humanity in an Age of Terror -
edited by Sophia A. McClennen and Henry James Morello - ask a
series of questions: What definitions of humanity account for the
persistence of human rights violations? How do we define terror,
and how do we understand the ways that terror affects the
representation of those that both suffer and profit from it? Why is
it that the representation of terror often depends on a distorted
(for example, racist, fascist, xenophobic, essentialist, and
eliminationist) representation of human beings? And, most
importantly, can representation, especially forms of art, rescue
humanity from the forces of terror, or does it run the risk of
making it possible? The authors of the volume's articles discuss
aspects of terror with regard to human rights events across the
globe, but especially in the United States, Latin America, and
Europe. Their discussion and reflection demonstrate that the need
to question continuously and to engage in permanent critique does
not contradict the need to seek answers, to advocate social change,
and to intervene critically.
Caught between the well-worn grooves the Boom and the Gen-X have
left on the Latin American literary canon, the writing
intellectuals that comprise what the Generation of '72 have not
enjoyed the same editorial acclaim or philological framing as the
literary cohorts that bookend them. In sociopolitical terms, they
neither fed into the Cold War-inflected literary prizes that
sustained the Boom nor the surge in cultural capital in Latin
American cities from which the writers associated with the Crack
and McOndo have tended to write. This book seeks to approach the
Generation of '72 from the perspective of cosmopolitanism and
global citizenship, a theoretical framework that lends a fresh and
critical architecture to the unique experiences and formal
responses of a group of intellectuals that wrote alongside
globalization's first wave.
The genesis of Comparative Cultural Studies and Latin America stems
from the contributors' conviction that, given its vitality and
excellence, Latin American literature deserves a more prominent
place in comparative literature publications, curricula, and
disciplinary discussions. The editors introduce the volume by first
arguing that there still exists, in some quarters, a lingering bias
against literature written in Spanish and Portuguese. Secondly, the
authors assert that by embracing Latin American literature and
culture more enthusiastically, comparative literature would find
itself reinvigorated, placed into productive discourse with a host
of issues, languages, literatures, and cultures that have too long
been paid scant academic attention. Following an introduction by
the editors, the volume contains papers by Gene H. Bell-Villada on
the question of canon, by Gordon Brotherston and Lucia de Sa on the
First Peoples of the Americas and their literature, by Elizabeth
Coonrod Martinez on the Latin American novel of the 1920s, by Roman
de la Campa on Latin American Studies, by Earl E. Fitz on Spanish
American and Brazilian literature, by Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria
on Latin American and comparative literature, by Sophia A.
McClennen on comparative literature and Latin American Studies, by
Alberto Moreiras on Borges, by Julio Ortega on the critical debate
about Latin American cultural studies, by Christina Marie Tourino
on Cuban Americas in New York City, by Mario J. Valdes on the
comparative history of literary cultures in Latin America, and by
Lois Parkinson Zamora on comparative literature and globalization.
The volume also contains a bibliography of scholarship in
comparative Latin American culture and literature and biographical
abstracts of the contributors to the volume.
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