'Ce n'est pas un blague: Purposes and limits of humour in early post-war France (1944-46)'

我打算研究战后从1944年6月诺曼底登陆到10月27日第四共和国在法国建立的战后时期，战争幽默在法国出版物中的不同形式、目的、限制和演变，这是一个从未从这个角度研究过的时期。我的项目将利用查德维克-希利解放文集的出版物，其范围是1944至1946年，以及其他档案。对解放文集的审计和对其内容的了解显示，幽默书籍(约50-70年)占相对较大的比例：绘画作品，从水彩画到卡通，从散文和诗歌，从营地幽默到政治讽刺。《幽默与战争》看似自相矛盾，然而，这些出版物引发了人们对二战结束后幽默运用的质疑。以前的历史研究方法似乎对印刷材料中的战争和战后幽默关注不够，包括这些作品是如何出版和接受的。然而，有一批关于第一次世界大战期间的幽默和关于历史的著作正在涌现，这将为我的论证提供有用的参考点。我打算利用约翰·莫雷尔和其他关于幽默哲学的著作(1986,2009)来探究战后早期幽默的目的，将其作为接受不可接受的策略的一种策略，或许可以通过对冲突的恶搞来鼓舞士气。正如让-伊夫·勒纳尔(Jean-Yves Le Naour，2001)在他对第一次世界大战幽默的研究中所指出的那样，法国二战后过渡时期的幽默是“一种安全阀，允许人们表达最糟糕的恐惧，帮助他们忍受目前的痛苦，并思考不可预测的战后未来”？

I am proposing to research the different forms, purposes, limits and evolution of war humour in French publications during the post-war period from the Normandy landings in June 1944 until the establishment of the Fourth Republic on 27th October, in France, a period that has never been studied from this perspective. My project will utilise publications in the Chadwyck-Healey Liberation Collection, whose scope is 1944 until 1946, along with other archives .An audit of the Liberation Collection and my knowledge of its contents reveal a relatively large proportion of humorous books (c.50-70): pictorial works, from watercolours to cartoons, prose, and poetry, ranging from camp humour to political satire. 'Humour and war' may seem an oxymoron, yet, these publications lead to questions on the uses of humour in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War.Previous historical approaches appear to have paid insufficient attention to war and post-war humour in printed material, including how these works were published and received. There is, however, a strong emerging body of work on humour in the First World War, and on Book History, which will provide helpful points of reference to build my argument.Using John Morreall's and other works on the philosophy of humour (1986, 2009) I intend to enquire the purposes of early post-war humour as a strategy to accept the unacceptable, perhaps by providing a parody of the conflict to boost morale. Was humour in the transition following the Second World War in France 'a safety valve which allowed modified expression of people's worst fears, helping them to endure through present pain and in contemplation of unpredictable post-war future', as Jean-Yves Le Naour (2001) argues in his study of World War I humour?