Satire, Humor and the Construction of Identities.

Intro -- Satire, Humor and the Construction of Identities -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Otherness and identity construction -- Chapter 3. Otherness, humor and satire -- Chapter 4. Humor, satire and identity construction -- Chapter 5. Construction of racial and ethnic identities via satire: Construction of racial and ethnic identities via satire -- Otherness in racial and ethnic identities -- ʿUbayd-i Zākānī's Ethics of the Aristocrats -- Chapter 6. Construction of national identities via satire -- Otherness and national identities -- Jonathan Swift's Drapier's Letters -- Chapter 7. Construction of religious identities via satire -- Otherness and religious identities -- Jonathan Swift's A Tale of a Tub -- ʿUbayd-i Zākānī -- Chapter 8. Construction of gender identities via satire -- Otherness in gender identities -- Construction of gender identities via satire -- Juvenal's Satire VI -- Swift and Montagu -- Taʾdīb al-Nisvān and Astarābādī's Maʿāyib al-Rijāl -- Conclusion -- Chapter 9. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

Conveys how satire can contribute to the construction of social subjects' identities. It attempts to provide a theoretical ground for a novel understanding of the relationship between satire and identity by finding their common denominator, namely opposition, in order to explain the mechanism through which satire can form identity.

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