Satire and the Postcolonial Novel: V.S. Naipaul, Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie

by John Clement Ball

Overview

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."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415803496
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/09/2009
Series:	Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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);

Editorial Reviews

'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)

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