Satire and the Postcolonial Novel
V.S. Naipaul, Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie
1. Auflage
Erschienen am 12. Juni 2003
Buch
Hardcover
224 Seiten
978-0-415-96593-4 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
Satire plays a prominent and often controversial role in postcolonial fiction. Satire and the Postcolonial Novel offers the first study of this topic, employing the insights of postcolonial comparative theories to revisit Western formulations of "satire" and the "satiric."
Rezensionen / Stimmen
'Satire and the Postcolonial Novel makes an important and highly original contribution to the field of postcolonial studies, for it offers the first sustained critique of satire in comparative postcolonial literature.' - English Studies in Canada (ESC)Weitere Details
Reihe
Sprache
Englisch
Verlagsort
London
Großbritannien
Verlagsgruppe
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Maße
Höhe: 235 mm
Breite: 157 mm
Dicke: 18 mm
Gewicht
521 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-96593-4 (9780415965934)
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Person
John Clement Ball earned hi PhD (1995) from the University of Toronto and is currently an associate professor of English at the University of New Brunswick. His articles on postcolonial and Canadian literature have appeared in ARIEL, English Studies in Canada, and elsewhere. He is editor of Studies in Canadian Literature.
Inhalt
Introduction; Chapter one Theories of Satire and Postcolonialism; Chapter two "The Old Enemy. And Also the New"; Chapter three "In All Fairness"; Chapter four "Pessoptimism"; Conclusion; afterword_2002 Afterword (2002);