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Political Oratory And Cartooning Analysis
Political Oratory and Cartooning: An Ethnography of Democratic Processes in Madagascar

By Jennifer Jackson. 2013. Durham: Wiley & Blackwell. 288 pages. ISBN: 978-1-118-30606-2.

Reviewed by Onur Senarslan, University of South Carolina
[Review length: 1052 words . Review posted on October 30, 2014]

Jennifer Jackson’s Political Oratory and Cartooning: An Ethnography of Democratic Processes in Madagascar (2013. Wiley & Blackwell) examines relationship between Madagascar’s political cartoonists and elite, turned politicians by way of analyzing cartooning and kabary, a traditional style of formal public oratory. Jackson aims to uncover the dynamic relationship between kabary, satire, and political changes, by way of drawing parallels in these social variables, and …show more content…
Jackson claims that “metalinguistic process of talking about what language does plays a role in shaping what “democracy” means and how it is linguistically mediated in urban Imerina.” She revisits kabary’s role in metapragmatically reshaping the speech I order to to close the gap in the perception of speakers’ intented meaning and hearers’ perception of the representation of truth by the political suitor. She also points out that the cartoonists somewhat aware of these covert agenda and jumps into a position to reveal the “real” intented meaning by way of caricaturizing them. Jackson’s conclusion statement sets the satge for the future of kabary in the political sphere of modern Madagascar: “As politicians change the way they speak to fit with ways of government, and audiences accept the change as a move toward modernity, they dismantle the salience of traditional kabary
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