{"id":871,"date":"2022-04-01T12:07:35","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T12:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/glare\/?p=871"},"modified":"2026-03-24T12:15:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T12:15:45","slug":"okuley-et-al-2025-a-critical-discourse-analysis-of-selected-animated-cartoons-of-african-origin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/glare\/okuley-et-al-2025-a-critical-discourse-analysis-of-selected-animated-cartoons-of-african-origin\/","title":{"rendered":"Okuley et al. (2025) A critical discourse analysis of selected animated cartoons of African origin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">Performs a CDA investigating 3 African animated films aimed at children: &#8216;Mark of Uru&#8217;; &#8216;The Secret Princess&#8217;; and &#8216;Lady Buckit and the Motley Mopsters&#8217;. Mostly qualitative analysis, although some quantitative elements are present. Found that, as well as the presence of positive narratives e.g. &#8216;team spirit&#8217;, ideologies which upheld patriarchal ideals and sexualised women were also present. Useful for those interested in CDA\/hegemonic discourses.<!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"csl-bib-body\">\n<div class=\"csl-entry\">Okuley, J. N. S., Hammond, C., Wornyo, A. A., &amp; Asemanyi, A. A. (2025). A critical discourse analysis of selected animated cartoons of African origin. <i>Cogent Arts &amp; Humanities<\/i>, <i>12<\/i>(1), 2468056. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/23311983.2025.2468056\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/23311983.2025.2468056<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Performs a CDA investigating 3 African animated films aimed at children: &#8216;Mark of Uru&#8217;; &#8216;The Secret Princess&#8217;; and &#8216;Lady Buckit and the Motley Mopsters&#8217;. Mostly qualitative analysis, although some quantitative elements are present. Found that, as well as the presence of positive narratives e.g. &#8216;team spirit&#8217;, ideologies which upheld patriarchal ideals and sexualised women were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/glare\/okuley-et-al-2025-a-critical-discourse-analysis-of-selected-animated-cartoons-of-african-origin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Okuley et al. (2025) A critical discourse analysis of selected animated cartoons of African origin<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1989,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[217,140,178,19,214,173],"class_list":["post-871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biblio","category-research-article","tag-african-culture","tag-animated-films","tag-cartoons","tag-critical-discourse-analysis","tag-gender-and-status","tag-gender-roles"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/glare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/glare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/glare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/glare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1989"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/glare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/glare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":872,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/glare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions\/872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/glare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/glare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/glare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}