This edited collection of new research highlights the way in which the cartoon - long regarded as a staple of journalism and freedom of expression - faces new challenges in the twenty-first century that can be far better understood and appreciated if one takes an historical perspective. Current debates over the limits of freedom of expression, 'political correctness', and 'cancel culture' all have their precedents in past controversies over cartoons and caricature; indeed there is a definite continuum between these past instances of debate and their present manifestations.
Chapters 2 and 10 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
1: Introduction.- 2: The Political Cartoon History and
Historiography.- 3: Striking Weapons: Cartoons during the American Civil War,
1861-1865.- 4: Culture Wars within a United Kingdom: Irish Cartoons in a
British Empire, 1870-1872.- 5: Caricature and identity crisis on the
satirical war between Punch and Pontos nos ii (1889-90).- 6: Why should
public men be held up to ridicule?: The George Reid Caricature Controversy
of 1904 and its Echoes in the Continuities and Discontinuities in
Australia in 2012.- 7: The Conspiracy of Laughter: Cartoons and their
Critics in India.- 8: Brazilian Disputed Imaginaries: Graphic Humour in the
Black and Indigenous Press in the 1970s-80s.- 9: The Decade of Jyllands
Posten and Charlie Hebdo: 2005-2015.- 10: Mark Knight versus Serena Williams
Game, Set, and Match for Political Correctness?.- 11: A Blind Man and a Dog
Walk into a Cartoon: The Limits of Humour, Antisemitism and Racism and
Informal Censorship in the Contemporary Liberal Press.- 12: Zapiro as Zorro:
Political Cartooning during the South African HIV/AIDS Crisis.- 13:
Conclusion.
Richard Scully is Professor in Modern History at the University of New England, Australia.
Paulo Jorge Fernandes is Assistant Professor in History at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal.
Ritu Gairola Khanduri is Associate Professor in Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Texas at Arlington, USA.
