Satire and Protest in Putin’s Russia

ISBN-13: 9783030762810 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 197 str.

Aleksei Semenenko

Opis

This book studies satirical protest in today’s Russia, addressing the complex questions of the limits of allowed humor, the oppressive mechanisms deployed by the State and pro-State agents as well as counterstrategies of cultural resistance. What forms of satirical protest are there? Is there State-sanctioned satire? Can satire be associated with propaganda? How is satire related to myth? Is satirical protest at all effective?—these are some of the questions the authors tackle in this book. The first part presents an overview of the evolution of satire on stage, on the Internet and on television on the background of the changing post-Soviet media landscape in the Putin era. Part Two consists of five studies of satirical protest in music, poetry and public protests.

Recenzje

"In addition to its considerable contribution to scholarship on contemporary Russian culture, Semenenko's comparative historical discussion makes it a valuable addition to studies of the place of humour and satire in Soviet culture ... . This volume also fills a gap in the scholarship on Putin-era culture and cultural politics, which has tended to focus on particular media (literature, film, television, art, music) or genres, rather than on more amorphous, cross-generic and multi-media modes of expression such as satire." (Seth Graham, Slavonic and East European Review SEER, Vol. 101 (2), January, 2023)

Spis treści

Part One

Chapter 1. The Evolution of Censorship in Russia

Chapter 2. The Evolution of Satire in Russia

Chapter 3. Satire on post-Soviet TV: From “Puppets” to Puppets

Chapter 4. KVN: A TV Show Larger than Television

Chapter 5. Joking Apart: Russian Humor of the Digital Era

Part Two

Chapter 5. Monstrations’ and 'Shimmering': Absurdist Popular Protests , by Daniel Leiderman

Chapter 6. Beyond Subversive Affirmation: The New Dissent Art in Russia, by Klavdia Smola

Chapter 7. The mediality of satirical protest in Putin’s Russia: “Grazhdanin poet”, by Annelie

Bachmaier

Chapter 8. Conservative Imperfection: Satire and New Populism of Leningrad, by Maria Engström

Epilogue. Beyond Satire, by Aleksei Semenenko

O autorze

Aleksei Semenenko is Associate Professor in Russian at Umeå University. He is the author of The Texture of Culture: An Introduction to Yuri Lotman’s Semiotic Theory (2012), Hamlet the Sign: Russian Translations of Hamlet and Literary Canon Formation (2007), Aksenov and the Environs (coedited with Lars Kleberg; 2012) and other works on Russian culture, translation and semiotics.

Blurb

This book studies satirical protest in today’s Russia, addressing the complex questions of the limits of allowed humor, the oppressive mechanisms deployed by the State and pro-State agents as well as counterstrategies of cultural resistance. What forms of satirical protest are there? Is there State-sanctioned satire? Can satire be associated with propaganda? How is satire related to myth? Is satirical protest at all effective?—these are some of the questions the authors tackle in this book. The first part presents an overview of the evolution of satire on stage, on the Internet and on television on the background of the changing post-Soviet media landscape in the Putin era. Part Two consists of five studies of satirical protest in music, poetry and public protests.

Aleksei Semenenko is Associate Professor in Russian at Umeå University. He is the author of The Texture of Culture: An Introduction to Yuri Lotman’s Semiotic Theory (2012), Hamlet the Sign: Russian Translations of Hamlet and Literary Canon Formation (2007), Aksenov and the Environs (coedited with Lars Kleberg; 2012) and other works on Russian culture, translation and semiotics.