Satire and the Postcolonial Novel : V.S. Naipaul, Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie - Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

Ball, John Clement

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Publisher's Synopsis

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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Book information

ISBN:	9780415803496
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Imprint:	Routledge
Pub date:	09 Jul 2009
Edition:	1st edition
DEWEY:	823.91409358
DEWEY edition:	22
Language:	English
Number of pages:	214
Weight:	354g
Height:	154mm
Width:	235mm
Spine width:	18mm