John Clement Ball

Satire and the Postcolonial Novel

V.S. Naipaul, Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie

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Produktbeschreibung

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."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juni 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 154mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9780415965934
• ISBN-10: 0415965934
• Artikelnr.: 22477409

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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)