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    Depictive Harm in Little Black Sambo? The Communicative Role of Comic Caricature.Mary Gregg - forthcoming - Canadian Journal of Philosophy:1-12.
    In Helen Bannerman’s Little Black Sambo, the text describes its main character as witty, brave, and resourceful. The drawings of the story’s main character which accompany this text, however, present a unique kind of harm that only becomes clear when the work is read as a collection of single-panel comics rather than an illustrated book. In this chapter, I show what happens when we read drawings in books as textless comics, and, based on how things turn out from this reading, (...)
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    The Unique Depictive Damage of Gombrichian Schemata in Cartoons.Mary Gregg - 2023 - Philosophia 51 (3):1309-1331.
    According to Ernst Gombrich, cartoons provide us the chance to “study the use of symbols in a circumscribed context [and] find out what role the image may play in the household of our mind” (Gombrich 1973, 190). This paper looks at some underexplored implications and outcomes of Ernst Gombrich’s conceptual schemata when such a schemata is applied to cartoons. While we might easily avoid defamatory reference when picking out a subject in writing or speech, cartoon depictions, especially those unaccompanied by (...)
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    Raúl Pérez. The Souls of White Jokes: How Racist Humor Fuels White Supremacy.Mary Gregg - 2023 - Philosophy and Global Affairs 3 (2):383-386.
  4. Knowledge & Language.Mary Gregg - 2016 - Philosophy Now 114:24-25.
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    The Untold Help of Harmful Visual Jokes: No Funny Business.Mary Gregg - 2023 - Springer Nature Switzerland.
    This book argues that when visual jokes are harmful, they harm in a specific way: a subject’s personhood is revoked in a way that differs both in kind and degree depending on whether that person is depicted or described. Such revocation can occur in every role and any stage within the joke’s context, from character to audience member, from moment of depiction to uncritical exposure. Unlike a mere unhumorous insult, which doesn’t require the sympathy of its audience but can operate (...)
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