Cartoon Conflicts

Contemporary Controversies and Historical Precedents

Richard Scully, Paulo Jorge Fernandes, Ritu Gairola Khanduri

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2025
• Print ISBN:
  9783031697616
• eBook ISBN:
  9783031697623
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Modern History
• Index: History

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.

Table of contents

• Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media
• Cartoon Conflicts
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Notes on Contributors
• 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 (1889–1890)
• 6. “Why should public men be held up to ridicule?”: The George Reid Caricature Controversy of 1904—Echoes, Continuities and Discontinuities in Australia in 2012
• 7. The Conspiracy of Cartoons in India
• 8. Brazilian Disputed Imaginaries: Graphic Humour in the Black and Indigenous Press in the 1970s–1980s
• 9. The Contested Ethics of Charlie Hebdo’s Editorial Cartooning: 10 Years on from #jesuischarlie
• 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
• Index1