Abstract
Offense lurks behind the political cartoon like its shadow capable of creating mixed reactions in the target. Cartoonists are perceived as sometimes adopting a cavalier attitude and, at other times, choosing to be cautious. As a result, cartoons cause intentional and unintentional offense, respectively. This paper examines the performance of intentional and inadvertent offense, as well as the aspects of the political cartoon that facilitate offense giving, before arriving at its central argument that there must be an earnest attempt at delimitation of offense giving. In order to emphasize this ethical turn, the authors perform a delimitation exercise by experimenting with five selected controversial cartoons.
Presenters
Snehal P SanathananStudent, PhD, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India Vinod Balakrishnan
Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology, Trichy, Tamil Nadu, India
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Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
KEYWORDS
POLITICAL CARTOONING, PERFORMANCE, OFFENSE, SATIRE, CONTROVERSY
