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Title:Not Western: race, reading, and the South African photocomic
Author:Saint, LilyISNI
Year:2010
Periodical:Journal of Southern African Studies (ISSN 1465-3893)
Volume:36
Issue:4
Pages:939-958
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:comic strips
photography
popular culture
apartheid
External link:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03057070.2010.527647
Abstract:Photocomics were widely popular in South Africa in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, yet they have received little critical attention. This article has two goals. First, it seeks to contextualize the production and consumption of photocomics during apartheid. Second, focusing on one popular form of the photocomic- the Western - it looks at how narrative and aesthetic conventions of the form reinforced, yet simultaneously disturbed, the apartheid State's fantasy of total segregation. Reading practices fostered interracial contact in the imaginative and affective spheres even while apartheid doctrine attempted to prevent it. Conjoining text and photograph, sequence and still, mimesis, fantasy, Europe, Africa, and the Americas, the photocomic is not just an outmoded form of popular entertainment, but instead connects readings in popular culture with the formation of complex political subjectivities. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]
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