Satire and the Postcolonial Novel: V.S. Naipaul, Chinua Achebe, Salman RushdieRoutledge, 12.06.2003 г. - 224 страници 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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V S Naipauls Multidirectional Satire | 41 |
Satire and Narrative in the Novels of Chinua Achebe | 79 |
Satire and the Menippean Grotesque in Salman Rushdies Novels | 115 |
Conclusion | 165 |
Afterword 2002 | 169 |
Notes | 175 |
Works Cited | 185 |
Index | 203 |
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Achebe Achebe’s achievement African allegorical ambivalent André Deutsch argues Bakhtin becomes binary Biswas Biswas’s Blackwhite British carnival character Chinua Achebe colonial colonialist colonialist discourse concept contemporary context cultural democracy Dialogic dominant essay function Ganesh genre Gibreel grotesque body historical ideal ideology Igbo Ikem imperial ironic gap irony judgment literary Longer at Ease Menippean satire metaphor Midnight's Children mimicry mode models moral Mystic Masseur Naipaul Nanga narrative narrator negative satire Nigeria norms Obi’s Odili parody perspective political postcolonial literatures postcolonial satire postcolonial texts reader referential resistance rhetorical Rosenheim’s Rushdie Rushdie’s Rushdie’s novels Saladin Saleem Salman Salman Rushdie Satanic Verses satire’s satiric attack satiric critique satiric fiction satiric representations satiric target satiric texts satirist says Shame social society specific Suffrage of Elvira text’s thematic Things Fall tion tional traditional Trinidad Tulsis V. S. Naipaul vision West Indian Western writing