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Political oratory and cartooning : an ethnography of democratic processes in madagascar / Jennifer Jackson.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: New directions in ethnography ; 4.Publisher: Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA : Wiley - Blackwell, 2013Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781118306154 (ePub)
  • 1118306155 (ePub)
  • 9781118306161 (MobiPocket)
  • 1118306163 (MobiPocket)
  • 9781118314432 ( Adobe PDF)
  • 1118314433 ( Adobe PDF)
  • 9781118306185
  • 111830618X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Political oratory and cartooningDDC classification:
  • 324.9691/055 23
LOC classification:
  • JQ3468
Online resources:
Contents:
1. Introduction: "Look out! The sleeping locusts awake" -- 2. A history of language and politics in Madagascar -- 3. The structural and social organization of kabary politika -- 4. The structural and social organization of kisarisary politika (political cartooning) -- 5. Building publics through interanimating and shifting registers -- 6. "Stop acting like a slave" : the ideological and aesthetic dimensions of syntax and register in political kabary and political cartooning -- 7. "That's what you think" : arguing representations of truth in language -- 8. Conclusion: The constraints and possibilities of democracy.
Summary: Jackson traces the lively skirmishes between Madagascar's political cartoonists and politicians whose cartooning and public oratory reveal an ever-shifting barometer of democracy in the island nation. It is the first anthropological study of the role of language and rhetoric in reshaping democracy and maps the dynamic relationship between formalized oratory, satire, and political change in Madagascar.
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1. Introduction: "Look out! The sleeping locusts awake" -- 2. A history of language and politics in Madagascar -- 3. The structural and social organization of kabary politika -- 4. The structural and social organization of kisarisary politika (political cartooning) -- 5. Building publics through interanimating and shifting registers -- 6. "Stop acting like a slave" : the ideological and aesthetic dimensions of syntax and register in political kabary and political cartooning -- 7. "That's what you think" : arguing representations of truth in language -- 8. Conclusion: The constraints and possibilities of democracy.

Jackson traces the lively skirmishes between Madagascar's political cartoonists and politicians whose cartooning and public oratory reveal an ever-shifting barometer of democracy in the island nation. It is the first anthropological study of the role of language and rhetoric in reshaping democracy and maps the dynamic relationship between formalized oratory, satire, and political change in Madagascar.