Against Imitation: Anti-Colonial Caricatures in Basantak, or the Bengali Punch

IF 0.3 3区 社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Victorian Periodicals Review Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI:10.1353/vpr.2023.a905138
S. Chatterjee
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Abstract:In 1874, Prannath Dutta published the satirical periodical Basantak to undermine obscenity laws and caricature the rational, militant masculinity of British administrators by depicting them as venal and incompetent to administer British India. Basantak's farces draw on various Indian literary and visual forms and genres. The jester-like omniscient narrator called Basantak—modeled after the cultivated iconoclast, Mr. Punch—displays an all-consuming cynicism. This article examines various imagetextual narratives, caricatures, and cartoons of British officials Stuart Hogg, Richard Temple, and Robert Phayre through which Basantak lampoons not only the childlike Englishmen but also their inane laws.
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反对模仿:巴桑塔克的反殖民漫画
摘要:1874年,Prannath Dutta出版了讽刺期刊《Basantak》,以破坏淫秽法律,并讽刺英国行政人员理性、好斗的男子气概,将他们描绘成腐败无能的英属印度行政人员。巴桑塔克的闹剧借鉴了印度各种文学和视觉形式和流派。这位名叫巴桑塔克(Basantak)的小丑般无所不知的叙述者——模仿了有教养的偶像破坏者潘趣先生——表现出了一种玩世不恭的态度。本文考察了英国官员斯图尔特·霍格、理查德·坦普尔和罗伯特·法伊尔的各种图像文本叙事、漫画和漫画,巴桑塔克通过这些故事不仅讽刺了童真的英国人,还讽刺了他们愚蠢的法律。
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