Race Riots
Comedy and Ethnicity in Modern British Fiction
1st Edition
Published on 7. August 2006
328 pages
978-0-7735-6013-0 (ISBN)
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From Black Mischief to The Buddha of Suburbia, twentieth-century British fiction is rife with racial humour. Challenging the common reluctance to take such comedy seriously, Michael Ross shows how humour directed at ethnic "others" exposes deep-seated national attitudes. Race Riots explores the development and implications of racial comedy in British literature from the early twentieth century to the present.
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Ross Michael L.:
Michael L. Ross is professor emeritus at McMaster University and the author of Designing Fictions: Literature Confronts Advertising.Michael L. Ross is emeritus professor, English and cultural studies, McMaster University, and the author of Storied Cities: Literary Imaginings of Florence, Venice, and Rome.
Michael L. Ross is professor emeritus at McMaster University and the author of Designing Fictions: Literature Confronts Advertising.Michael L. Ross is emeritus professor, English and cultural studies, McMaster University, and the author of Storied Cities: Literary Imaginings of Florence, Venice, and Rome.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction: Preliminary Convulsions
- PART ONE: PUNCH LINES
- 1 Caliban and His Progeny
- 2 Inferiority Complexions: The London Charivari
- 3 White Mischief: Evelyn Waugh's African Charivari
- 4 Joyce Cary's Tragic African Clown
- PART TWO: PASSAGES TO ELSEWHERE
- 5 Forster's Funny Bridge Party: Nation and Humour in A Passage to India
- 6 Roman Catholic Carnival: Muriel Spark's Passage to Jerusalem
- 7 The Far and the Near: Pym and Taylor
- PART THREE: THE EMPIRE LAUGHS BACK
- 8 Samuel Selvon and the Carnival of Reverse Colonization
- 9 Rerouting the Comic: Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses
- 10 "A Funny Kind of Englishman": Hanif Kureishi's Carnival of Ethnicities
- 11 "Some Subtleties of the Isle": Matthew Kneale's Anti-Tempest
- 12 The Empire Laughs Last
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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