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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ross, Michael L., 1936-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2006.
Temas:
English fiction > History and criticism.
Laughter in literature.
Comic, The, in literature.
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature.
Racism in literature.
Racisme dans la littérature.
Stéréotypes dans la littérature.
Comique dans la littérature.
Rire dans la littérature.
Roman anglais > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Comic, The, in literature
English fiction
Laughter in literature
Racism in literature
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Caliban and his progeny
  • Inferiority complexions: the London charivari
  • White mischief: Evelyn Waugh's African charivari
  • Joyce Cary's tragic African clown
  • Forster's funny bridge party: nation and humour in A passage to India
  • Roman Catholic carnival: Muriel Spark's passage to Jerusalem
  • The far and the near: Pym and Taylor
  • Samuel Selvon and the carnival of reverse colonization
  • Rerouting the comic: Salman Rushdie's The satanic verses
  • "A funny kind of Englishman": Hanif Kureishi's carnival of ethnicities
  • "Some subtleties of the isle": Matthew Kneale's anti-Tempest
  • The empire laughs last.

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