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Race Riots : Comedy and Ethnicity in Modern British Fiction
ISBN: 9780773560130
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / McGill-Queen''s University Press
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Subjects: Literature;

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.

Michael L. Ross (1936-2024) was professor emeritus at McMaster University and the author of Designing Fictions: Literature Confronts Advertising.

Michael L. Ross (1936-2024) was professor emeritus at McMaster University and the author of Designing Fictions: Literature Confronts Advertising.