Helmy, Mohamed M., Frerichs, Sabine. 2018. Sheherazade Says No: Artful Resistance in Contemporary Egyptian Political Cartoon. In: Street Art of Resistance, Hrsg. Awad, Sarah H.; Wagoner, Brady, 349-376. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
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Abstract
Taking sociological and psychological functions of humor seriously, this chapter explores the cultural psychology of political cartoon in contemporary Egypt. Political cartoon is approached as a form of art and resistance, in which the artists speak for a ‘cherished community’. In a political system that aspires to democratic ideals, but bears features of an authoritarian system, political cartoonists assume the role of activists. By analyzing what they are fighting for (the constitution), whom they are fighting for (the citizen), and how they picture themselves (as inseparable from their subject matter), we arrive at a view of Egyptian cartoonists as socio-psychoanalysts, who link past, present and potential futures, share in the pain of their cherished community, and transform it, if only for a moment, into laughter.
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Status of publication | Published |
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Affiliation | WU |
Type of publication | Chapter in edited volume |
Language | English |
Title | Sheherazade Says No: Artful Resistance in Contemporary Egyptian Political Cartoon |
Title of whole publication | Street Art of Resistance |
Editor | Awad, Sarah H.; Wagoner, Brady |
Page from | 349 |
Page to | 376 |
Location | Basingstoke |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Year | 2018 |
Reviewed? | Y |
URL | https://www.palgrave.com/de/book/9783319633299 |
Open Access | N |
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- People
- Frerichs, Sabine (Details)
- External
- Helmy, Mohamed M. (NTU, Singapore)
- Organization
- Institute for Sociology and Social Research IN (Details)
- Research areas (ÖSTAT Classification 'Statistik Austria')
- 5115 European integration (Details)
- 5402 General sociology (Details)
- 5415 Economic sociology (Details)
- 5430 Sociology of law (Details)