Taking Penguins to the Movies: Ethnic Humor in RussiaWayne State University Press, 1998 - Broj stranica: 199 As ethnic conflicts have become hot political issues, Russian jokes about ethnic groups have become more common and ethnic humor even more prevalent than political humor. In Taking Penguins to the Movies, Emil Draitser offers an insider's view of Russian society by presenting and analyzing Russian ethnic jokes that center on Jews, Georgians, Ukrainians, Chukchis, and other groups. Drawn from Russian joke books and the author's private collection, most of the 300 jokes and popular rhymes, ethnicity-related proverbs and sayings appear in English for the first time. Draitser uses humor as a means of understanding the attitudes and customs, beliefs and idiosyncrasies, and inter- and intra-group relationships of this multinational society. He traces the evolution of ethnic stereotyping, examines the circumstances under which such jokes arise, shows how they are used to project anxieties on out-groups, and suggests what they reveal about those who tell them. |
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Acknowledgments | 15 |
Salt Pork in Chocolate | 57 |
On Chuchmeks Egg Yolks and Other Strangers | 101 |
Hes Abroad? Im the One Whos Abroad | 119 |
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