[Nhora Lucia Serrano]

Call for Papers for a guaranteed panel at the Modern Language Association

(MLA) Annual Convention, 7-10 Jan. 2016, in Austin.

 

 

Satire and the Editorial Cartoon

Ever since the days of William Hogarth and his brand of pictorial satire, expressing an opinion on the politics of the day in print demanded a combination of humor, hyperbole, and caricature in its illustration. By the 19^th century, the periodical Punch appropriated the term ‘cartoon’—a finished preliminary sketch on a large piece of cardboard—to refer to its political, pictorial editorials. At the height of the turn of the century, the editorial cartoon was deeply imbedded in commenting on art, politics, and immigration in order to draw attention to corruption and other social ills. This panel seeks papers that examine satire in cross-cultural early editorial cartoons, periodicals and the cartoonists, from 18^th century to early 20^th century (i.e. George Townsend, James Gillray, Thomas Nast, Punch, The Masses, Puck, Richard Outcault, John Tenniel, and others), and the subverting nature of the satirical mode in text and image to respond and critique the socio-political problems of the day.

 

Please send 200 to 300-word abstracts in .doc or .pdf and CV by March 10 to Nhora Serrano (nhoraluciaserrano [at] gmail [dot] com). Submitters will receive notification of results by April 1.

 

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