Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. About the contributors ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Mapping the Field
7. Satire and dignity 19
8. The Authenticity of Play 33
9. Cultural Flow 47
10. Space
11. Reshaping the Border Zone. An Approach to Satirical Space 61
12. Mediating satire 71
13. Arab Sitcom Animations as Platforms for Satire 81
14. Target
15. Contesting Political Boundaries in Contemporary Moroccan Satire 95
16. How to Burlesque a Burlesquer 105
17. Who is the ape, who the human? Reize door het Aapenland (1788) and Die Affenkönige oder die Reformation des Affenlandes (1789) considered 135
18. Rhetoric
19. Looking backward. The rhetoric of the back in visual satire 147
20. "A bull is a ludicrous jest": fable and the satiric bite in Arbuthnot's John Bull pamphlets 175
21. Bas Jan Ader's Ludic Conceptualism 185
22. Media
23. Absolutely Fabulous 197
24. TV Satire and its Targets 207
25. Enlightenment Subverted 217
26. Time
27. On the power of Money and the King of Spain's son-in- law 235
28. Who are the Frogs? The Transmigration of a Symbol of Nationality 247
29. Hydropathe Caricature 259
30. Conclusions 269
31. Index 275