From Black Mischief to The Buddha of Suburbia, twentieth-century British fiction is rife with racial humour. Challenging the common reluctance to take such comedy seriously, Michael Ross shows how humour directed at ethnic "others" exposes deep-seated national attitudes. Race Riots explores the development and implications of racial comedy in British literature from the early twentieth century to the present.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references: p. [291]-302
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 823/.91093552
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- General Note
- Includes index Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- e-uk---
- ISBN
- 9780773560130 0773531092
- LCCN
- PR830.C63
- LCCN Item number
- R68 2006eb
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- CaBNVSL
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- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xii, 309 p.)
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- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)slc00221884 (OCoLC)753350038 (CaOOCEL)424779
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- List of Illustrations 8
- Acknowledgments 10
- Preface 12
- Introduction: Preliminary Convulsions 16
- PART ONE: PUNCH LINES 36
- 1 Caliban and His Progeny 38
- 2 Inferiority Complexions: The London Charivari 60
- 3 White Mischief: Evelyn Waugh’s African Charivari 86
- 4 Joyce Cary’s Tragic African Clown 105
- PART TWO: PASSAGES TO ELSEWHERE 124
- 5 Forster’s Funny Bridge Party: Nation and Humour in A Passage to India 126
- 6 Roman Catholic Carnival: Muriel Spark’s Passage to Jerusalem 150
- 7 The Far and the Near: Pym and Taylor 173
- PART THREE: THE EMPIRE LAUGHS BACK 190
- 8 Samuel Selvon and the Carnival of Reverse Colonization 192
- 9 Rerouting the Comic: Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses 216
- 10 “A Funny Kind of Englishman”: Hanif Kureishi’s Carnival of Ethnicities 241
- 11 “Some Subtleties of the Isle”: Matthew Kneale’s Anti-Tempest 261
- 12 The Empire Laughs Last 282
- Notes 294
- Bibliography 304
- Index 316
- A 316
- B 316
- C 317
- D 317
- E 317
- F 318
- G 318
- H 318
- I 318
- J 318
- K 319
- L 319
- M 319
- N 320
- O 320
- P 320
- R 320
- S 321
- T 322
- W 322
- Y 322
