خنده اسپانیایی: شوخی و حس آن در اسپانیا مدرن

Presenting a cultural and interdisciplinary study of humor in Spain from the eighteenth century to the present day, this book examines how humour entered public life, how it attained a legitimacy to communicate 'serious' ideas in the Enlightenment and how this set the seed for the key position that humor occupies in society today. Through a range of case studies that run from Goya's paintings, humor, and gender representations in radio programmes during the first Franco regime, developmentalist cinema of the sixties and seventies, to the transformation of female humor in social media, the book traces the core role that the comical has played in the public sphere. The contributors to this volume represent a wide range of disciplines including gender studies, humour studies and Hispanic studies and offer international perspectives on Spanish laughter. Contents Illustrations Introduction Chapter 1 When Spaniards Defied Gravity Humour, Seriousness and Identity in Eighteenth-Century Spain Chapter 2 Disciplinary Humour in the Public Sphere The Rhetoric of Gender Satire in José Clavijo y Fajardo’s El pensador Chapter 3 La vieja y la niña Women’s Humour in the Comedies of María Rosa Gálvez Chapter 4 When Women Are on Top Humour, Politics and Pornography in Goya’s Swings Chapter 5 The Terrible and the Ridiculous in Goya’s Los Caprichos Chapter 6 Satire and Humour in Anti-Liberal Public Opinion in Cadiz during the Cortes (1811–13) Chapter 7 Humour, Gender and Nationalism Female Quixotism and Heroine-ism in Early Nineteenth-Century Spain and Mexico Chapter 8 Humour in the Political Analysis of Absolutism in Mariano José de Larra’s Articles (1828–33) Chapter 9 ‘Long Live the Joke’ Political Satire and Humour through the Valencian Newspaper El Mole (1837) Chapter 10 Monochatus Non Est Pietas Anticlerical Humour and Political Violence (c. 1750–1840) Chapter 11 Laughter, Gender and the Politics of Celebrity in Fin-de-Siècle Spain Chapter 12 El Gran Bvfón Illustrated Magazines, Humourism and Caricature in Spain at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century Chapter 13 Artistic Parody, Political Criticism and Spanish Humour (c. 1900) Chapter 14 The ‘Moor’, the ‘Russian’ and Other Invaders Some Notes on Humour and National Otherness in the Spanish Civil War (1936–39) Chapter 15 Smiling for the Homeland Humour and Gender Representations in Radio Programmes during the First Franco Regime (1939–59) Chapter 16 The Developmentalist Cinema of the Sixties and Seventies Archetypes of Gender and Social Change in the Paleto and Destape Phenomena Chapter 17 Sex, Truths and Viral Tapes The Transformation of Spanish Female Humour in the Digital Age Conclusions Index "Why and what have we laughed at in the last two centuries? Is humor merely a means of provoking laughter and entertainment, or of communicating deeper ideas? What are and have been its limits? Spanish Laughter answers these and many other questions through an interdisciplinary study of Spanish humor from the Enlightenment to the present day, analyzing everything from literature and political satire to film and social networks"-- Provided by publisher