23:45 Conf. "Satire and Caricature as Mediators of Cultural Trau | |
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 21 - 24, 2015
Deadline: Apr 20, 2015
SECAC 2015
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Satire and Caricature as Mediators of Cultural Trauma
This panel examines the function and capacity of caricature to
articulate the experience of cultural trauma during the modern era.
The verbal-visual dynamic of caricatures in daily news journals
increases reader sensibility toward satirized topics. Satirical
caricatures commented on and shaped dialogue regarding social,
cultural, and political issues, and, in particular, the traumatic
process of urbanization and modernization during the second-half of the
nineteenth century. Cultural trauma involves a lived event that
shatters and fragments social cohesion. Cultural trauma demands
distance, mediation, and representation. The satirical caricatures in
the popular press news journal functioned to mitigate the visceral
experience of trauma through satire. At the same time, these satirical
images were a visual representation of real trauma generated by
modernization. This panel invites papers that investigate how
caricatures overtly and covertly mediated cultural trauma, undermined
power relations, and provided critical distance and laughter; how
caricature shaped social dialogue and visual imagery.
Please use SECAC's online form and submit your abstract and CV no later
than midnight EDT on April 20, 2015.
Session Chair: Jennifer Pride, Florida State University,
jsp06c@my.fsu.edu
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