The Exoticism of the “Other”: Chinese, Russians, and Africans in Three Albums by Georges Remi
Abstract
This article analyzes three albums of The Adventures of Tintin by Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi, better known as Hergé. It looks into the Eurocentric gaze and the exoticizing sense of humor that shaped both Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (1929) and Tintin in the Congo (1930) and earned Hergé accusations of racism and a ban on sales. The article then goes on to examine a shift towards a “laugh of the oppressed” in The Blue Lotus (1935) that will continue in subsequent works. Lastly, it reflects on the ways in which a change in Hergé’s work methodology reshaped his conceptions, enabling a new language, type of humor, and treatment of the “other” and their culture that resulted in a fundamental turning point in his work.
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