Laughing on the other side: humour in the exile narrative of Avel·lí Artís Gener, Tísner

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Abstract

Having previously expressed a 'special kinship' with the Second Spanish Republic, President Lázaro Cárdenas opened Mexico's doors to refugees from the Peninsula, with some 6,000 making the trans-Atlantic journey between April and August 1939 (Schuler 1998: 56; Faber 2002: 171; Villarroya 2000: 42). Among this initial wave of émigrés was the humourist Avel·lí Artís-Gener (1912–2012), who, under the moniker Tísner, had earned particular notoriety for his cartoon and editorial work in the Catalan satirical press of the time. Undeterred by exilic displacement, Tísner soon became part of the nascent diasporic Catalan press and was one of very few foreign cartoonists to break into the Mexican satirical market (McGlade 2016: 52–54). Meanwhile, his fascination with the humorous manipulation of language — a trademark of his cartoons — provided the crossover to a lesser-known literary coming of age that developed over a twenty-six-year period of exile and continued well into the return to Barcelona.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCatalan Narrative 1875–2015
EditorsJordi Larios, Montserrat Lunati
Place of PublicationCambridge
Chapter12
Number of pages16
ISBN (Electronic)9781781884270
Publication statusPublished - 28 Sept 2020

Publication series

NameStudies in Hispanic and lusophone cultures
PublisherLegenda
Volume16
ISSN (Print)2053-5074

Keywords

  • Avel·lí Artís-Gener
  • Catalan satirical press
  • Tísner

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