Bellum Nostrum Contra Omnes. Stereotipuri etnice în caricatura de presă la sfârsitul secolului XIX si începutul secolului XX
Bellum Nostrum Contra Omnes. Ethnic Stereotypes in Press Cartoons at the end of the 19th Century and the Beginning of the 20th Century

Summary/Abstract: In the second half of the 19th century, allover Europe satirical journals started to popularize visual stereotypes with ethnical reference. Such products of the cartoonist were not only simply hilarious graphic solutions with the sole purpose to amuse, but also intentionally depreciative expressions of the Others. In the age of nationalism, pictorial stereotypes were one way to slander the image of one’s neighboring countries and to bring forth, to the public, their so often perilous character to the nation. For instance, Austro-Hungarian journals were portraying the Serbians constantly in a negative way, regarding them as savage bloody terrorists. And the perpetual grudge between Frenchmen and German assured a long-time visual antipropaganda to the others, by means of cartoons, from the both sides. Each ones were perceived by the others as being aggressive and dangerous at all time.

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