The Trump carnival: popular appeal in the age of misinformation
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DOI: 10.1177/0047117818773130
Abstract: This article argues that a Russian analytical paradigm of carnival culture can help explain the successful presidential campaign of President Donald J. Trump. Russian philosopher and literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin developed the notion of carnival… read more here.
Keywords: appeal; trump carnival; carnival culture; carnival ... See more keywords
Imagining a multicultural community in an everyday football carnival: Chants, identity and social resistance on Western Sydney terraces
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DOI: 10.1177/1012690216665356
Abstract: Football fans around the world chant together to generate a carnivalesque atmosphere as well as to proclaim their collective identity. This paper unveils the key social issues that are behind the chants of the most… read more here.
Keywords: football; western sydney; community; carnival ... See more keywords
Dramatizing History: Reading Bakhtin’s Carnival in Kee Thuan Chye’s Plays
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DOI: 10.13185/3080
Abstract: This paper explores the representations of Bakhtin’s notion of the Carnival in two revisioned historical plays of Kee Thuan Chye. As a firm believer of freedom of expression, Kee Thuan Chye employs his plays as… read more here.
Keywords: carnival; thuan chye; kee thuan; dramatizing history ... See more keywords