Vile sovereignty: the carnival of power
In this paper we seek to extend Bakhtin’s reading of the folk carnival and apply it to help understand the carnivalesque, performative aspects of state power. Drawing on the work of Agamben, Foucault, Lacan and Žižek and recent scholarship on the role of laughter in the Stalinist totalitarian cultur...
Main Authors: | Hallsworth, Simon, Stephenson, Svetlana |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English English |
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Sage
2024
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Online Access: | https://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/9205/1/Hallsworth%20and%20Stephenson%20Carnival%20final.pdf https://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/9205/7/hallsworth-stephenson-2024-vile-sovereignty-the-carnival-of-power.pdf |
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