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Informationen zum Autor Jennifer Jackson is Assistant Professor in the Anthropology Department at the University of California, Los Angeles. Since 1994, her research has focused on Madagascar and the US, spanning studies in semiotics, language ideologies and aesthetics, and verbal and visual artistic performance in political practice related to the formation of democracy, civil society and statehood. Klappentext Jackson traces the lively skirmishes between Madagascar's political cartoonists and politicians whose cartooning and public oratory reveal an ever-shifting barometer of democracy in the island nation.* The first anthropological study of the role of language and rhetoric in reshaping democracy* Maps the dynamic relationship between formalized oratory, satire, and political change in Madagascar* A fascinating analysis of the extraordinary Ciceronian features of kabary, a style of formal public oratory long abandoned in the West* Documents the management by United States Democrat campaign advisors of a foreign presidential bid, unprecedented in the post-colonial era Zusammenfassung Jackson traces the lively skirmishes between Madagascar s political cartoonists and politicians whose cartooning and public oratory reveal an ever-shifting barometer of democracy in the island nation. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures viii Note on Orthography x Acknowledgments xi Preface xiv 1 Introduction: "Look Out! The Sleeping Locusts Awake" 1 2 A History of Language and Politics in Madagascar 18 3 The Structural and Social Organization of Kabary Politika 65 4 The Structural and Social Organization of Kisarisary Politika (Political Cartooning) 92 5 Building Publics through Interanimating and Shifting Registers 117 6 "Stop Acting Like a Slave": The Ideological and Aesthetic Dimensions of Syntax and Register in Political Kabary and Political Cartooning 157 7 "That's What You Think": Arguing Representations of Truth in Language 193 8 Conclusion: The Constraints and Possibilities of Democracy 214 Index 241 ...
