Contemporary political satirists by Jacob De Bruyn

“…The challenge addressed in this article is to see if a link between contemporary political satire and prophetic witness can be justified theologically. …”
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Francisco Umbral - chronicler of contemporary Spain by A O Dolbnia

“…Almost all of the publications of the author have a political satire nature. Umbral has made a considerable contribution into the development of the language of the contemporary Spanish press and literature.…”
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Fan action and political participation on "The Colbert Report" by Marcus Schulzke

“…The Colbert Report merges the increasingly popular political satire genre with fan activism. The result is that the fan community helps to construct Colbert's malleable character and demonstrates symbolic power through its willingness to act. …”
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Social Satire in Harold Pinter’s Celebration by مؤيد انوية ججو مروة غازي محمد

“…However, his main concern was his social and political satire.…”
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Dalle pagine della Fackel agli Ultimi giorni dell’umanità. Karl Kraus e la guerra by Riccardo Morello

“…Between 1915 and the end of the war, Karl Kraus, an Austrian intellectual who had made political satire and criticism of journalistic language, engages in a fierce battle against the inhumanity and cruelty of war. …”
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Old Comedy, Public Intellectuals and the Origins of Dissent Communication: The Case of Aristophanes by Jordi Xifra

“…Indeed, Old Comedy was the first great example of mass communication in which political satire was used to dissent and protest against political and social circumstances in fifth-century BC Athens. …”
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Making fun of power by Orest Semotiuk, Viktoriya Shevchenko

“…The first part describes theoretical aspects, functions, and elements of political humour and political satire, main features and types of cartoons and memes. …”
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Sincerely Fake: Exploring User-Generated Political Fakes and Networked Publics by Elisabetta Ferrari

“…This article investigates user-generated political satire, focusing in particular on one genre: fake political accounts. …”
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Klaus Mann's Mephisto: A Secret Rivalry by Peter T. Hoffer

“…Although Mephisto is the only political satire that Klaus Mann wrote, it is consistent with his life-long tendency to use autobiographical material as the basis for much of his plot and characterization. …”
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Play On Words on Nurhadi-Aldo Political Memes by Intan Rawit Sapanti

“…Political satire in form of Nurhadi-Aldo meme arise ahead of Presidential Election 2019 was one of the society reaction towards the massive black or negative campaign happening nowadays. …”
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“She writes like a Woman”: Paratextual Marketing in Delarivier Manley’s Early Career by Kate Ozment

“…Although these texts are not explicitly political satire, they nevertheless explicate the preliminary and halting machinations of an astute businesswoman and the marketing tactics Manley would employ throughout her career. …”
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Two favourite themes in Nigérien literature by Marieke Odendaal

“…However, not only did Nigérien literature emerge after independence, but writers from Niger tend to emphasise certain themes addressing practical concerns that are specific to their community; they do not focus on political satire per se. Hence, Niger’s novelists pay attention to essential themes like drought and famine, rural exodus and emigration. …”
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Gendered Dystopia: Gender Politics in Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We by Demir Alihodžić

“…Furthermore, Zamyatin uses socio-political satire to comment subversively on the complexities of the patriarchal social and political structures present in the society in which he wrote. …”
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Nekorektní literatura. Estetika a diskurz české akční fantastiky by Stefan Segi

“…Te analysis of Czech splatterpunk novels and short stories reveals what is actually understood as ‘incorrect’ in terms of literary fction, and how those texts, featuring primarily white masculine heroes with indestructible bodies, lend themselves to diferent kinds of readings: from sharp political satire to self-refective spectacular grotesque.…”
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Bulgakov and Laboulaye (To the Issue of Sources of “Heart of a Dog”) by Alexandre F. Stroev

“…Laboulaye’s work containing the dominant characteristics of the distopia and social and political satire influenced the texts of Alexander Kuprin, Evgeny Zamyatin as well. …”
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“She writes like a Woman”: Paratextual Marketing in Delarivier Manley’s Early Career by Jasper Schelstraete

“…Although these texts are not explicitly political satire, they nevertheless explicate the preliminary and halting machinations of an astute businesswoman and the marketing tactics Manley would employ throughout her career. …”
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‘Žít Brno’: Czech online political activism from jokes and tactics to politics and strategies by Alena Macková, Jakub Macek

“…The group that challenges local representatives and employs tactics of political satire, parody and culture jamming, evolved from a spontaneous one-off event to an ongoing political project and eventually became an institutionalized political actor. …”
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Phraseological Anglicisms in German: A look at a satirical TV program by Sabine Fiedler

“…It is shown that the modification of phraseological units is an oft-used technique of political satire. Phraseological Anglicisms represent about one third of all occurrences in the examined data set, and thus play an important role. …”
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The Myth of the Cannibal, Mimesis and Social Criticism in Como era gostoso o meu francês (1971). by Roberto Ponce Cordero

“…Rather, these differences turn this film into a political satire directed at 1971 Brazil, as well as into a comment on colonial difference and on the strategies employed by the colonized in order to mock the colonizer by performing his worst fears about the Other.…”
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Reading Together: Engaging Undergraduate Writers Through an Online Book Club by Tanya Perkins

“…In the second course, during the pandemic, students had virtual synchronous and written participation choices while we read together Jessica Anthony’s political satire, Enter the Aardvark, with the author visiting in two sessions. …”
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