Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Belarus, an example of an Authoritarian state, Humor and Rumor in the Post-Soviet Authoritarian State presents over one hundred contemporary political jokes in the contexts of their performance.
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Throughout, Anastasiya Astapova demonstrates the salience of the joke genre, the multiplicity of Humor manifestations, and the fundamental presence of intertextual links between jokes and another folk genre-rumor.
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Belarus, an example of an Authoritarian state, Humor and Rumor in the Post-Soviet Authoritarian State presents over one hundred contemporary political jokes in the contexts of their performance