Holocaust Cartoons as Ideographs: Visual and Rhetorical Analysis of Holocaust Cartoons

SAGE Open

Mahdiyeh Meidani¹ 

关键词: Holocaust cartoon competition;    ideograph;    social controversy;    controversial images;    global journalism;    communicative event;    transnational connections;    freedom of speech;    Gayssot Act;    oppositional arguments;    clash of civilizations;    Palestine;    Israel;    Zionism;    Nazism;   

DOI  :  10.1177/2158244015597727

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

The Holocaust cartoon competition of 2006 in Iran as an instance of social controversy has the potential to raise social and political arguments over various international and global issues. Through using McGee’s theory of ideograph and Edwards and Winkler’s theory of representative form, I identify the ideographs used in these cartoons and argue that the Holocaust cartoons function ideographically to portray Jews, Judaism, Palestine, Israel, Zionism, and the Holocaust. I explain how these controversial images function as representative characters and representative anecdotes and create different ideological interpretations of the Holocaust and associated issues, such as Israel–Palestine conflicts and Western freedom of speech. I argue that the cartoons suggest a connection between Nazism and Zionism, or the Nazi and Israeli regimes, by juxtaposing various elements and situations. I explain that the cartoons anecdotally refer to the Holocaust and represent it as myth or hoax used by Jews/Zionists to justify creation of the nation of Israel.

【 授权许可】

CC BY