LEADER 03552nam 22006254a 450 001 9910451148803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-29815-8 010 $a9786611298159 010 $a1-84714-216-8 035 $a(CKB)1000000000406850 035 $a(EBL)436543 035 $a(OCoLC)290573652 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000125327 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11132736 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000125327 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10027065 035 $a(PQKB)11082390 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC436543 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL436543 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10224670 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL129815 035 $a(OCoLC)893334254 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000406850 100 $a20010830d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aComedy, fantasy, and colonialism$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Graeme Harper 210 $aLondon ;$aNew York $cContinuum$d2002 215 $a1 online resource (254 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8264-4866-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [221]-231) and index. 327 $aContents; List of illustrations; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE: Displacement, dualism and belief: exploring colonial comedy and fantasy; CHAPTER TWO: Ukcombekcantsini and the fantastic: Zulu narratives and colonial culture; CHAPTER THREE: The game is up: British women's comic novels of the end of Empire; CHAPTER FOUR: James Morier and the oriental picaresque; CHAPTER FIVE: Cubans on the moon, and other imagined communities; CHAPTER SIX: Fairies on the veld: foreign and indigenous elements in South African children's stories 327 $aCHAPTER SEVEN: Magic realism: humour across culturesCHAPTER EIGHT: Mr Punch's crinoline anxiety: the Indian Rebellion and the rhetoric of dress; CHAPTER NINE: Cape-to-Cairo: Africa in Masonic fantasy; CHAPTER TEN: Laughing matters: the comic timing of Irish joking; CHAPTER ELEVEN: Two hundred years of colonial laughter in Malta: Carnival and Pantomime in Malta under British rule; CHAPTER TWELVE: Trickster-outlaws and the comedy of survival; CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Capturing the antipodes: an imaginary voyage to Terra Australis; CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Conclusion; Selected bibliography; Index 330 $aDrawing together for the first time original work from international specialists, this book assesses the role and character of comedy and fantasy in colonial societies from India to Ireland, Australia to Cuba, Africa to North America. There are cross-cultural comparisons and consideration of both imperial responses and colonized resistance. The book deals with oral as well as written traditions, the history of comic and fantastic discourse, visual, theatrical and literary representations as well as historical and cultural accounts. 606 $aWit and humor$xHistory and criticism 606 $aFantasy literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aImperialism in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aWit and humor$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aFantasy literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aImperialism in literature. 676 $a809/.917 701 $aHarper$b Graeme$0879968 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451148803321 996 $aComedy, fantasy, and colonialism$91965023 997 $aUNINA