 | Race Riots: Comedy and Ethnicity in Modern British Fiction Subjects: Racism in literature; Stereotype (Psychology) in literature; Comic The in literature; Laughter in literature; English fiction -- History and criticism; 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. Ross Michael L. : Michael L. Ross is professor emeritus at McMaster University and the author of Designing Fictions: Literature Confronts Advertising.Michael L. Ross is emeritus professor, English and cultural studies, McMaster University, and the author of Storied Cities: Literary Imaginings of Florence, Venice, and Rome. |
