OMBRES ET LUMIERES SUR LES PRISONNIERS DE LA CRISE POST-ELECTORALE DE 2010-2011 EN COTE DIVOIRE. ANALYSE COMPARATIVE DES CARICATURES EDITORIALES DES PRISONNIERS DANS LA PRESSE ECRITE

This paper questiones the political uses of the figure of the prisoner in the political cartoon in C?te d?Ivoire after the 2011 post-electoral crisis. It based on the analyze of cartoons of five newspapers appeared between December 7th, 2012 and December 26th, 2013 and semi-structured interviews with cartoonists. Following the contesting of the results of the presidential elections of 201O by Laurent Gbagbo and his challenger, Alassane Ouattara led to serious violence. On April 11th the strengths pro-Gbagbo get the upper hand and Laurent Gbagbo and several of his collaborators are arrested. The arrest of the political personalities makes newspapers headlines especially cartoonists. Under the features of pencils of the cartoonists, the RDR, the incumbent and FPI, the opponent are engaged an ideological war with cartoons as ammunitions. Indeed, cartoons became instruments of spreading political ideologies. This ideological war is led by the newspapers of opinions close to the RDR and the FPI and in a wider perspective in the satirical press. Behind the curtain of visual discursive practices of being mockeries and stigmatization, the features of prisoners close to FPI and the actors of the local and international judicial institution (CPI) are exaggerate, deform and amplify according to the logics and stakes in presence. Cartoons transpose the Manichean of the political arena where oppose enemies and friends. The theme of eternal invincibility constitutes the basis of the ideological propaganda of the cartoon of newspapers close to the FPI. On the contrary, the ideology of a merciless justice shows through in the drawings of the press of the RDR.