Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. 91 pages : chiefly colour illustrations; 29 cm

Summary

1. With Pappa in doubt, Anton Kannemeyer returns to the fertile land that he explored to brilliant satiric effect in Pappa in Afrika (2010). Once again parodying Herge's Tintin in the Congo (1931), Kannemeyer exposes the contradictions and paradoxes of life in the postcolony. The artist is as provocative as he is playful, and does not spare himself the relentless, humorous scrutiny to which he subjects politicians, despots and his neighbours in the leafy suburbs. In addition to drawings, paintings and prints, the book features extended comics in which Kannemeyer traces the dawning of his political consciousness as a young white Afrikaans-speaking South African, whose life is entwined with the joys and realities of Africa. His comics and other singular images also confront and reflect on the racism embedded in language and the physical and mental violence ingrained in the deeply divided society in which he lives --

Subject

1. South Africa
2. Africa
3. Underground comic books, strips, etc
4. Racism > Political aspects
5. Kannemeyer, Anton
6. Underground comic books, strips, etc > Africa
7. Caricatures and cartoons
8. Racism > Political aspects > Caricatures and cartoons
9. 1900 - 1999
10. Underground comic books, strips, etc > South Africa
11. South Africa > Politics and government > 20th century > Pictorial works
12. Comic books, strips, etc > South Africa
13. Africa > Politics and government > Comic books, strips, etc
14. Politics and government
15. Comic books, strips, etc > Africa
16. Pictorial works

Genre/Form

1. Caricatures and cartoons.
2. Comics (Graphic works)
3. Pictorial works.

Owning institution

1. Columbia University Libraries