Satire and the Postcolonial Novel - V.S. Naipaul, Chinua Achebe, Saman Rushdie

Zusatztext '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) Informationen zum Autor 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 . Klappentext 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." Zusammenfassung Satire plays a prominent and often controversial role in postcolonial fictions. This work offers the first study of this topic, employing the insights of postcolonial comparative theories to revisit Western formulations of 'satire'. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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);

Product details

• Authors: John C. Ball, John Clement Ball, Ball John Clement
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.07.2003
• EAN: 9780415965934
• ISBN: 978-0-415-96593-4
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 235 mm x 17 mm
• Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Reference, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature: history and criticism