Ours Abroad” As a Theme of Humor on Ru.net
Changing Values, Competing Loyalties
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12977977 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maria Yelenevskaya (0000-0001-7155-8755, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 267-287 |
| Publication date | 2009-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Russian Journal of Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1940-9427 • E-ISSN: 1940-9419 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/19409419.2009.10756755 |
| OpenAlex | W2327325173 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 1 |
Drawing on the material of humor portals, immigrant community sites, live journals and discussion forums of Ru.net, this essay analyzes how mass emigration of the first post-Soviet decades is reflected in jokelore. The advent of Ru.net and increased mobility of the population made Russian humor transnational in terms of production and dissemination. Although anekdot has retained its role as the most popular type of verbal jokelore, amusing personal experience stories (baiki) are competing with it on the internet. Observational in nature, they enable the teller to capture unusual, bizarre and absurd situations and phenomena. Immersion into a new culture and language makes this type of humorous texts suitable for rendering migrants’ experiences. Humor of post-Soviet émigrés is grounded in the Soviet culture and has inherited imperial attitudes to the “Other.” Positioning themselves as colonizers of the host societies, émigrés display an ambivalent, sometimes ironic vision of the self.Keywords: diasporic cultureemigrationinternet humorpost-Soviet folkloretransnationalism Additional informationNotes on contributorsMaria YelenevskayaMaria Yelenevskaya is a senior teaching fellow in the Department of Humanities and Arts, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Isreal ([email protected])
Ambivalence · Art · Emigration · Immigration · Literature · Media studies · Political science · Population · Sociology · The arts · The Internet · Theme (computing · Trilogy · Visual arts · Asian Culture and Media Studies · History · Humor Studies and Applications · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
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