Comedy, fantasy, and colonialism /

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Drawing 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 im...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Harper, Graeme
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Continuum, 2002.
Temas:
Wit and humor > History and criticism.
Fantasy literature > History and criticism.
Imperialism in literature.
Littérature fantastique > Histoire et critique.
Impérialisme dans la littérature.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Fantasy literature
Imperialism in literature
Wit and humor
Humoristische Literatur
Literaturkritik
Imperialismus > Motiv
Fantastische Literatur
Letterkunde.
Engels.
Het komische.
Het fantastische.
Koloniale literatuur.
Engelstalige landen.
Humor.
Fantasy (litteratur)
Imperialism i litteraturen.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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