| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 237 pages) : illustrations |
| 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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-231) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Wit and humor -- History and criticism.
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Fantasy literature -- History and criticism
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Imperialism in literature.
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TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Fantasy literature
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Imperialism in literature
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Wit and humor
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Humoristische Literatur
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Literaturkritik
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Imperialismus Motiv
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Fantastische Literatur
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Letterkunde.
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Engels.
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Het komische.
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Het fantastische.
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Koloniale literatuur.
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Engelstalige landen.
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Humor.
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Fantasy (litteratur)
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Imperialism i litteraturen.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Harper, Graeme
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| ISBN |
9781847142160 |
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1847142168 |
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1281298158 |
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9781281298157 |
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9786611298159 |
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6611298150 |
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