Hate, Marginalization, and Tramp-Bashing
Hate, Marginalization, and Tramp-Bashing
A Raceclass and Critical Realist Approach to Researching British National Identity through Comics
This chapter uses three examples of “British comics” taken from a larger empirical project about the connection between comics and discourses of “Britishness,” and aligns these with a Critical Realist framework. These are: the normalization of hate in MAC’s Daily Mail cartoon, marginalization in Beano’s "Ball Boy,” and (parodies of) stereotypes in Tillotson and Brookes’ The Manly Boys Annual and Comely Girls Annual. This advances and uses specific social science theoretical and analytical tools for understanding comics as material culture. As such, in the later part of this chapter I make explicit a wider conceptual framework based in sociocultural theory, using this to show how the study of comics can approach larger questions of representation and identity formation.
Keywords: Critical Realism, Marginalization, Britishness, Sociocultural theory, Representation
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