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Laughing in the Face of Death: Humor during the Algerian Civil War, 1991-2002

Perego, Elizabeth Marie
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4957-4860
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1492608880090522

Abstract Details

2017, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, History.
My dissertation analyzes Algerians’ use of humor during the country’s civil war of the 1990s. While a conflict that leaves 200,000 people dead is no laughing matter, Algerians persisted in producing comedy throughout the war. Twenty months of consulting media archives and conducting oral interviews in Algeria and France revealed that jokes and cartoons constituted an important discourse through which various actors defined their position in the war. Informed by theories of culture and power, this project advances humanistic understanding of humor as a means of navigating postcolonial and intercultural identities as well as an instrument of war or peace and an historical source.
Ousman Kobo (Advisor)
Ahmad Sikainga (Committee Member)
Sabra Webber (Committee Member)
451 p.
History
Algeria, North Africa, Maghrib, humor, satire, conflict and conflict resolution, postcolonial studies, history

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  • Perego, E. M. (2017). Laughing in the Face of Death: Humor during the Algerian Civil War, 1991-2002 [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1492608880090522

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Perego, Elizabeth. Laughing in the Face of Death: Humor during the Algerian Civil War, 1991-2002. 2017. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1492608880090522.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Perego, Elizabeth. "Laughing in the Face of Death: Humor during the Algerian Civil War, 1991-2002." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1492608880090522

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