In:Iranian Political Satirists: Experience and motivation in the contemporary era
Mahmud Farjami
[Topics in Humor Research 5] 2017
► pp. v–viii
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Published online: 18 May 2017
https://doi.org/10.1075/thr.5.toc
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Table of contents
Acknowledgments
ix
Chapter 1Introduction: The book, the topic and the author
1
Why do satirists do what they do?
3
Outline of the book
5
A foreword on Iran: A preliminary chapter
6
Chapter 2Tradition and inheritance: Humor and satire in classical Persian literature
13
Satire in Ancient Persia
13
Hajv writers in Persian literature
14
Satirical weapons for particular purposes
16
Satire in personal quarrels
18
Social satire
19
Jocular works and socio-political motivation
21
Satire in moral and mystical texts
23
Satirizing hypocrisy
26
Pioneering professional satire in Iran: Obeyd Zakani
28
Food, clothes and parody!
32
Motivations for irony and satire in HistoricalTimes
33
Chapter 3Modern experience: Political satire in contemporary Iranian media
39
The advent of print and political satire in Iran
40
Political satire under the reign of the Pahlavis
48
Political satire under the Islamic Regime: Home and abroad
54
Iranian political satire in new media
74
Chapter 4Theoretical approaches to humor and satire
79
Earlier studies of Persian satire and humor
79
Studies of socio-political satire in the “Constitutional Revolution Era”
81
Eye witness reports by satirists and journalists
86
International studies on motivation in political satire and humor
89
Power, politics, satire and the press
90
Political satire outside the press
93
Chapter 5A conceptual and theoretical framework
99
Conceptualizing humor and satire
99
Persian satire or tanz
103
Analyzing satire: Functions, forms and components
104
Satirists and political satire
108
The motivations of satirists
110
Theoretical background for the study of humor and satire
112
Superiority theory
112
Relief theory
113
Incongruity theory
115
Integrating relevant theories
116
Applying a theoretical framework to satirists’ motivations
118
Chapter 6Exploring the data: Methodology and process
123
Designing procedures for the research
123
Collecting the data
124
Selecting sample material: The satirists
126
Hadi Khorsandi
126
Ebrahim Nabavi
126
Abolfazl Zaruee
127
Roya Sadr
127
Mana Neyestani
128
Firoozeh Mozaffari
128
Hadi Heidari
129
Pouria Alami
129
F. M. Sokhan
130
Analyzing the data
130
Establishing and using a coding frame
132
Drawing conclusions from the coded data
136
Chapter 7Arriving at insights: Findings from research
139
Establishing the unified coding frame
139
Roya Sadr (°1950, writer and humor scholar)
141
Ebrahim Nabavi (°1958, writer and comedian)
143
Mana Neyestani (°1973, cartoonist)
145
Hadi Khorsandi (°1943, poet and writer)
146
Abolfazl Zaruee (°1969, poet and writer)
148
Firoozeh Mozaffari (°1970, cartoonist)
151
Pouria Alami (°1982, writer)
152
Hadi Heidari (°1978, cartoonist and humor scholar)
154
F. M. Sokhan (°?, writer)
155
Applying the general matrix
157
Chapter 8Conlusions
161
Motivations related to superiority theory
162
Motivations related to relief theory
163
Relief functions of satire: Safety valve or weapon of the weak?
166
Motivations related to incongruity theory
167
Motivations unrelated to the three humor theories
169
Summary and conclusions
172
Epilogue: Notes and comments on the study
177
References
181
Appendices
193
1.Roya Sadr
193
2.Ebrahim Nabavi
195
3.Mana Neyestani
196
4.Hadi Khorsandi
198
5.Abolfazl Zaruee
200
6.Firoozeh Mozaffari
201
7.Pouria Alami
203
8.Hadi Heidari
204
9.F. M. Sokhan
206
