Here's a challenge for my generous ARLIS colleagues--find a specific
source for the cartoon described below. The student just found this
referred to, is giving a presentation tomorrow, and would love to use this
image. Alas, we don't have the Bayard book in our collection so I can't
check it for any more specific citation to the image. The student and/or I
have searched Art Full Text, Art Retrospective, BHA, Google Images,
ProQuest Dissertations Full Text, http://www.plantu.net--all to no avail.
The book _Human Rights: Questions & Answers_ by Leah Levin is illustrated
by Plantu but our copy has gone walkabout. If anything in your prodigious
collective visual memory can help, the student will still be interested
after the presentation.
I am writing a graduate seminar paper and found a reference in one of my
books to a French cartoon drawn by Jean Plantureux "Plantu." Malina Smith
quoted a Jean-Francios Bayart :
"Bayard discussed an example of a stereotypical representation of Africa
in a cartoon after a natural disaster in Cameron. The French cartoonist
Plantu "drew an African facing the lottery of death. The wheel turned
between famine, civil war, drought, apartheid, the invasion of locusts,
corruption, and the AIDS epidemic." This kind of depiction, he added,
"tends to turn political science into pathology when it speaks of
sub-Saharan societies as dependent, immature, or morbid." (Smith, 20)
Bayard, Jean-Francois, "Introduction: The Historicity of African
Societies," in The State in Africa: The Politics of the Belly, 1993;
quoted in Smith, Malinda S., Globalizing Africa, 2003, Africa World Press,
Trenton, NJ and Asmara, Eritrea
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