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G andhi and the Satyagraha of Newspaper Cartoons
Author(s) -
Khanduri Ritu Gairola
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
visual anthropology review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.346
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1548-7458
pISSN - 1058-7187
DOI - 10.1111/var.12000
Subject(s) - newspaper , scrutiny , interpretation (philosophy) , resistance (ecology) , situated , colonialism , period (music) , vocabulary , ambiguity , history , media studies , sociology , linguistics , art , aesthetics , political science , law , philosophy , computer science , artificial intelligence , ecology , archaeology , biology
Newspaper cartoons are significant because their inherent ambiguity withstands scrutiny as historical and anthropological texts. This article focuses on G andhi's writings and analysis of newspaper cartoons published in the S outh A frican press. Addressing the I ndian community in a period of growing resistance, G andhi situated cartoons as a part of the necessary vocabulary for understanding the B ritish mind. Serving a pedagogical role, through his translation and interpretation, G andhi also urged his readers to see what the whites were already seeing. Engaging G andhi as an interlocutor in the colonial visual milieus he inhabited shows the newspaper cartoons’ intimate connections with colonialism and resistance.