« Jules Crevaux, l’explorateur aux pieds nus ». Un mythe géographique amazonien by Emmanuel Lézy

“…The « voyage », stuck by the same despise, is presented as a caricature of indigenous nomadism. The exploration of the countries of totemism and animism is described as a mental, intelectual activity based on the identification of the fundamental structures of the myths organising the knowledge of the world which has nothing to do with the necessary movement of the feet. …”
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Le langage de l’hypocrisie chez quelques personnages dickensiens : une rhétorique de l’excès by Jacqueline Fromonot

“…The conclusion will explore Dickens’s various reasons for the use of caricature and its excesses, and the access to truth which excessive distorsion can paradoxically provide.…”
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“Consummate Too Too”: On the Logic of Iconotexts Satirizing the “Aesthetic Movement” by Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada

“…The question of gender, however, is not so much linked to the formal relation between image and text but to the discourse deployed by these iconotexts since what is aimed at is a caricature based on gendered constructions of the category of “Aesthetes”. …”
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Faire mémoire par le trait ou les tribulations latino-américaines de Charlie by Frédérique Langue

“…In an adverse context for freedom of thought in the so called public sphere (both in Europe and Latin America), this essay explores the sense that is supposed to have from Latin America one of the "recent disasters" of present times, as was the attack against the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in January 2015. Political caricature appears to be the expression of a traumatic experience and a shared political culture through republican and democratic practices as well. …”
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« Excès et pénurie dans Middlemarch : le cas de M. Casaubon » by Sylvie Jougan

“…But this portrait of the failed scholar can also be read as a form of self-caricature, through which George Eliot was trying to exorcize her fear of failure in writing Middlemarch.…”
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The Cultural Economy Moment? by Flew Terry

“…While work undertaken in cultural studies has contributed to these developments, the development of neo-liberalism as a meta-concept in critical theory constitutes a substantive barrier to more sustained engagement between cultural studies and economics, as it rests upon a caricature of economic discourse. The paper draws upon Michel Foucault’s lectures on neo-liberalism to indicate that there are significant problems with the neo-Marxist account hat became hegemonic over the 2000s. …”
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Images de l’étrange : Punch ou la re-présentation du paradigme bourgeois by Françoise Baillet

“…More connotative than denotative, the Punch portrait thus carried a significant protective function.On the social front, first, the caricature of the extremes allowed the management of a potentially dangerous otherness. …”
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La recomposition des savoirs au Maghreb à l’époque de la coopération by Jean-Robert Henry

“…The desire for a renewed approach did not avoid caricature and dogmatism. Indeed, a theoretical universalism intended as replacement for discriminating colonialist discourse, vested itself in a more or less modernized Marxist vulgate of the economy, sociology, linguistics, law, anthropology. …”
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‘Woman Suffrage Precipice’: The Gender Politics of Laughter in Elizabeth Robins’s The Convert (1907) by Nathalie Saudo-Welby

“…Indeed, since the New Woman was commonly a target for caricature, the suffragette a laughing stock, and feminist demonstrations were considered as enjoyable as “good Sunday afternoon street entertainment”, The Convert turned this tendency to its advantage and used humour as a sweetener for the serious pill it contains, in accordance with the received idea that women are born entertainers. …”
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Multimodal Media Tools of Popular Geopolitics: Russian Politics in Foreign Media Cartoons by N. K. Radina

“…Hall’s concept of propaganda, considering the text of a caricature from semiotic perspective. The integration of the theoretical fields of popular geopolitics and propaganda is substantiated, since political cartoons not only form stereotypes about politics and international relations among media readers, but also perform propaganda functions, broadcasting the point of view of the information platform on Russian politics and Russia. …”
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Maladie hyperostosique et maladie goutteuse, une diathèse familiale en Normandie : Thaon, Calvados by Joël Blondiaux, Armelle Alduc-Le Bagousse, Xavier Demondion, Françoise Delahaye, Cécile Niel

“…In the archaeological context of people buried side by side in a church chancel, this palaeopathological observation offers an almost caricatural look at possible genetic links with common overeating within an historical privileged group.…”
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"Christ transforming culture"? Nagedink oor die aard van die gereformeerde geloof by D. Smit

“…In a concluding section the essay argues that four popular forms of criticism of the Reformed faith, widespread in South Africa today, are therefore directed at caricatures and betrayals of the Reformed tradition. …”
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Parallel Universes? Alison Bechdel’s Dykes to Watch Out For (1983-2008) and Diane DiMassa’s Hothead Paisan: Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist (1991-1996) by Hélène Tison

“…DiMassa presents a caricatured, degraded version of US society, focusing on its relation to minorities, as seen through the eyes of a “homicidal lesbian terrorist” intent on reclaiming their right to exist in the world. …”
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‘I should like to see a woman smoking while she was nursing her baby’: The New Woman, Crossdressing, and Humour in Horace William Bleackley’s Une Culotte (1894) by Mariam Zarif

“…While the New Woman was often mocked and caricatured as a mannish and destructive figure in the late Victorian press, New Woman writers also used humour to attack the status quo and parry ridicule with ridicule. …”
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‘I roll my cigarette, and cycle to my club’: Playing with Stereotypes and Subverting Anti-Feminism in New Woman Writers’ Contributions to Punch by Katy Birch

“…This article will highlight the role of female writers in contributing to the portrayal of women in an influential periodical and will expand the view of Punch’s representation of the New Woman beyond the familiar satires and caricatures.…”
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Standing at Cultural Crossroads: Erskine Nicol’s Representations of Ireland by Amélie Dochy

“…Néanmoins, certaines compositions de Nicol s’éloignent du style écossais pour adopter un mode plus caricatural, notamment dans les années 1850, ou encore réaliste, en particulier dans les œuvres évoquant la vie quotidienne des Irlandais. …”
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