LEADER 03007oam 2200685I 450 001 9910970789203321 005 20251116161702.0 010 $a1-135-45155-9 010 $a0-415-80349-7 010 $a0-203-95741-5 010 $a1-135-45148-6 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203957417 035 $a(CKB)2670000000603125 035 $a(EBL)2001999 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001459921 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11790266 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001459921 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11464731 035 $a(PQKB)10107379 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2001999 035 $a(OCoLC)905689974 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000603125 100 $a20130331d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSatire & the postcolonial novel $eV. S. Naipaul, Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie /$fJohn Clement Ball 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2003. 215 $a1 online resource (224 p.) 225 0 $aLiterary Criticism and Cultural Theory : Outstanding Dissertations 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a0-415-96593-4 311 08$a1-336-22110-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter One Theories of Satire and Postcolonialism; Chapter Two "The Old Enemy. And Also the New": V. S. Naipaul's Multidirectional Satire; Chapter Three "In All Fairness": Satire and Narrative in the Novels of Chinua Achebe; Chapter Four "Pessoptimism": Satire and the Menippean Grotesque in Salman Rushdie's Novels; Conclusion; Afterword (2002); Notes; Works Cited; Index 330 $aSatire 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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