Union College Union | Digital Works Honors Theses Student Work 6-2016 Cartooning for Peace? The ecesN sity of Political Cartooning to Democracy and Understanding the Struggle of Inclusion Exclusion and Citizenship for French Muslims Ashley Enger Union College - Schenectady, NY Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalworks.union.edu/theses Part of the French and Francophone Literature Commons, and the Race, Ethnicity and Post- Colonial Studies Commons Recommended Citation Enger, Ashley, "Cartooning for Peace? The eN cessity of Political Cartooning to Democracy and Understanding the Struggle of Inclusion Exclusion and Citizenship for French Muslims" (2016). Honors Theses. 621. https://digitalworks.union.edu/theses/621 This Open Access is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Work at Union | Digital Works. It has been accepted for inclusion in Honors Theses by an authorized administrator of Union | Digital Works. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Cartooning for Peace? The Necessity of Political Cartooning to Democracy and Understanding the Struggle of Inclusion, Exclusion, and Citizenship for French Muslims By Ashley Egner ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for Honors in the Department of Political Science and Modern Languages UNION COLLEGE June, 2016 Abstract This combined thesis for Political Science and French and Francophone Studies will address the issue of political cartooning in relation to democracy. This thesis will show how political cartooning explores the ambiguities and contradictions of citizenship for Muslims in France. Cartoons reveal the ostracizing of citizens, the challenges of integration, and the difficulties of discovering an identity as an immigrant through explicit, shocking, and often uncomfortable imagery.