Jackson Political Oratory and Cartooning

An Ethnography of Democratic Process in Madagascar
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-118-31443-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: New Directions in Ethnography

Jackson traces the lively skirmishes between Madagascar'spolitical cartoonists and politicians whose cartooning and publicoratory reveal an ever-shifting barometer of democracy in theisland nation.
* The first anthropological study of the role of language andrhetoric in reshaping democracy
* Maps the dynamic relationship between formalized oratory,satire, and political change in Madagascar
* A fascinating analysis of the extraordinary Ciceronian featuresof kabary, a style of formal public oratory long abandoned in theWest
* Documents the management by United States Democrat campaignadvisors of a foreign presidential bid, unprecedented in thepost-colonial era

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jackson, Jennifer

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures viii
Note on Orthography x
Acknowledgments xi
Preface xiv
1 Introduction: "Look Out! The Sleeping Locusts Awake" 1
2 A History of Language and Politics in Madagascar 18
3 The Structural and Social Organization of Kabary Politika 65
4 The Structural and Social Organization of Kisarisary Politika (Political Cartooning) 92
5 Building Publics through Interanimating and Shifting Registers 117
6 "Stop Acting Like a Slave": The Ideological and Aesthetic Dimensions of Syntax and Register in Political Kabary and Political Cartooning 157
7 "That's What You Think": Arguing Representations of Truth in Language 193
8 Conclusion: The Constraints and Possibilities of Democracy 214
Index 241

Über Autor(innen)

Jennifer Jackson is Assistant Professor in the Anthropology Department at the University of California, Los Angeles. Since 1994, her research has focused on Madagascar and the US, spanning studies in semiotics, language ideologies and aesthetics, and verbal and visual artistic performance in political practice related to the formation of democracy, civil society and statehood.