Satire and the Postcolonial Novel: V.S. Naipaul, Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie
ISBN: 9780203957417
Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge
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Subjects: Language & Literature; Literature;

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."

John Clement Ball earned hi PhD (1995) from the University of Toronto and is currently an associate professor of English at the University of New Brunswick. His articles on postcolonial and Canadian literature have appeared in ARIEL, English Studies in Canada, and elsewhere. He is editor of Studies in Canadian Literature.

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