Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: War, Lies, and Newsprint 1. Satire and Censorship 2. Verbal and Visual, Humor and Politics: Organization as Discourse 3. Unstuffing Skulls: The Canard versus the Mass Press 4. The Tears of L'Intran: Semiotic Hijacking and Wartime Anxieties 5. Soldiers versus Profiteers: Class War as Patriotism 6. In Vino Veritas: De la Fouchardiere, Bicard, and the Politics of Inebriation 7. Peace or Postwar: The Next Last War 8. Web of Memory 9. Between Cannibalism and Resurrection: The Body of the Unknown Soldier 10. Anti-Imperialism and Its Stereotypes: War in the Colonies 11. Politics as Usual: An Antiparliamentarism of the Left? 12. Canard Economics, or the Costs of the War 13. The Wealth of Nations 14. Conclusion: Politics of Humor, Politics of Memory Notes Index

About the Author

Allen Douglas is Professor of West European Studies and History at Indiana University, Bloomington. His previous books include L'ideologie par la bande (with F. Malti-Douglas, 1987), From Fascism to Libertarian Communism (California, 1992), and Arab Comic Strips (with F. Malti-Douglas, 1994).