Satire and the Postcolonial Novel: V.S. Naipaul, Chinua by John Clement Ball

By John Clement Ball

Satire performs a widespread and infrequently arguable function in postcolonial fiction. Satire and the Postcolonial Novel bargains the 1st examine of this subject, making use of the insights of postcolonial comparative theories to revisit Western formulations of "satire" and the "satiric."

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