Comedy, fantasy, and colonialism
Title:
Comedy, fantasy, and colonialism
Author:
Harper, Graeme.
ISBN:
9781847142160
Publication Information:
London ; New York : Continuum, 2002.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xi, 237 p.) : ill.
Contents:
List of illustrations; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE: Displacement, dualism and belief: exploring colonial comedy and fantasy; CHAPTER TWO: Ukcombekcantsini and the fantastic: Zulu narratives and colonial culture; CHAPTER THREE: The game is up: British women's comic novels of the end of Empire; CHAPTER FOUR: James Morier and the oriental picaresque; CHAPTER FIVE: Cubans on the moon, and other imagined communities; CHAPTER SIX: Fairies on the veld: foreign and indigenous elements in South African children's stories.
Abstract:
Drawing together for the first time original work from international specialists, this book assesses the role and character of comedy and fantasy in colonial societies from India to Ireland, Australia to Cuba, Africa to North America. There are cross-cultural comparisons and consideration of both imperial responses and colonized resistance. The book deals with oral as well as written traditions, the history of comic and fantastic discourse, visual, theatrical and literary representations as well as historical and cultural accounts.
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