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Race riots : comedy and ethnicity in modern British fiction /
Ross examines racial humour as a manifestation of post-colonialism and questions contemporary critiques of "political correctness." Looking at cartoons from pre-World War II issues of Punch, Ross shows how disdain for non-Europeans plays a key role in period British humour and links this i...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montreal [Que.] :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
©2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Ross examines racial humour as a manifestation of post-colonialism and questions contemporary critiques of "political correctness." Looking at cartoons from pre-World War II issues of Punch, Ross shows how disdain for non-Europeans plays a key role in period British humour and links this idea to the racial humour in the work of Evelyn Waugh and Joyce Cary. He also demonstrates how these assumptions are later turned on their heads by writers such as Salman Rushdie. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 309 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-302) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780773560130 0773560130 0773531092 9780773531093 |