8 Between imagined and ‘real’
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Keren Zdafee
Abstract
This chapter examines the creation and development of al-Masri Effendi – a caricatured type, who first appeared in 1930 in the pages of the Egyptian satirical journal Ruz al-Yusuf. Use of this ‘everyman’ character mushroomed in the interwar period in Egypt, as al-Masri Effendi not only tapped into the themes of the journals in which he appeared, and was built on the preoccupations of his cartoonist creators, but also came to represent the stereotypical Egyptian and embodiment of the nation (in the context of a modernity developing alongside a continued struggle with British colonial rule). Yet his utility also saw al-Masri Effendi become a site of contestation, over the supposed Egyptian character and the nature of Egyptianness (relating to issues of class, race, and gender).
Abstract
This chapter examines the creation and development of al-Masri Effendi – a caricatured type, who first appeared in 1930 in the pages of the Egyptian satirical journal Ruz al-Yusuf. Use of this ‘everyman’ character mushroomed in the interwar period in Egypt, as al-Masri Effendi not only tapped into the themes of the journals in which he appeared, and was built on the preoccupations of his cartoonist creators, but also came to represent the stereotypical Egyptian and embodiment of the nation (in the context of a modernity developing alongside a continued struggle with British colonial rule). Yet his utility also saw al-Masri Effendi become a site of contestation, over the supposed Egyptian character and the nature of Egyptianness (relating to issues of class, race, and gender).
Chapters in this book
- Front matter i
- Contents v
- List of figures vii
- List of contributors xvi
- Acknowledgements xxi
- 1 Introduction 1
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PART I: High imperialism and colonialism
- 2 Courting the colonies 31
- 3 ‘Master Jonathan’ in Cuba 66
- 4 ‘The international Siamese twins’ 92
- 5 ‘“Every dog” (no distinction of color) “has his day”’ 134
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PART II: The critique of empire and the context of decolonisation
- 6 The making of harmony and war, from New Year Prints to propaganda cartoons during China’s Second Sino-Japanese War 161
- 7 David Low and India 192
- 8 Between imagined and ‘real’ 216
- 9 The iconography of decolonisation in the cartoons of the Suez Crisis, 1956 242
- 10 Punch and the Cyprus emergency, 1955–1959 277
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PART III: Ambiguities of empire
- 11 Outrage and imperialism, confusion and indifference 305
- 12 Ambiguities in the fight waged by the socialist satirical review Der Wahre Jacob against militarism and imperialism 334
- 13 The ‘confounded socialists’ and the ‘Commonwealth Co-operative Society’ 362
- 14 Australian cartoonists at the end of empire 393
- Index 426
Chapters in this book
- Front matter i
- Contents v
- List of figures vii
- List of contributors xvi
- Acknowledgements xxi
- 1 Introduction 1
-
PART I: High imperialism and colonialism
- 2 Courting the colonies 31
- 3 ‘Master Jonathan’ in Cuba 66
- 4 ‘The international Siamese twins’ 92
- 5 ‘“Every dog” (no distinction of color) “has his day”’ 134
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PART II: The critique of empire and the context of decolonisation
- 6 The making of harmony and war, from New Year Prints to propaganda cartoons during China’s Second Sino-Japanese War 161
- 7 David Low and India 192
- 8 Between imagined and ‘real’ 216
- 9 The iconography of decolonisation in the cartoons of the Suez Crisis, 1956 242
- 10 Punch and the Cyprus emergency, 1955–1959 277
-
PART III: Ambiguities of empire
- 11 Outrage and imperialism, confusion and indifference 305
- 12 Ambiguities in the fight waged by the socialist satirical review Der Wahre Jacob against militarism and imperialism 334
- 13 The ‘confounded socialists’ and the ‘Commonwealth Co-operative Society’ 362
- 14 Australian cartoonists at the end of empire 393
- Index 426
