Political Cartoons in the Middle East:A New Form of Communication and Resistance

• 作者: Salud Adelaida Flores-Borjabad
• 来源期刊: 美中外语：英文版
• 学科: 文学
• 关键词: cartoons MIDDLE EAST CULTURAL REVOLUTION CULTURAL IDENTITY mass media symbolical LANGUAGES
• 年，卷（期）: 2018,（6）
• 页码范围: 320-329
• 页数: 10页
• 分类号: H3

摘要

The aim of this research is to analyze and study political cartoon in the Middle East.In general,political cartoons have been considered a form of fun and they have been ignored.However,owing to de fact that they have seen as just fun,they provide comments on society that are relevant to the public sphere.As a result,the objectives of this research are to discuss this function of cartoons in the Middle East,to study how they work as a form of communication in Middle Eastern societies,to analyze cartoons as form to fight against the authoritarian regimes in the Middle East and to assess the evolution of political cartoons in the Middle East.Additionally,in order to develop and analyze these objectives,a qualitative methodology has been used.This research is a theoretical approach as a wide variety of data have been collected and analyzed.Therefore,this research is a form of understanding how political cartoons are product of every culture as they are a non-verbal language capable to encourage people to fight against the authoritarian regimes.