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Postcolonial Satire
Indian Fiction and the Reimagining of Menippean Satire
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2019
Summary
Postcolonial Satire: Indian Fiction and the Reimagining of Menippean Satire positions postcolonial South Asian satiric fiction in both the cutting-edge territory of political resistance writing and the ancient tradition of Menippean satire. Postcolonial Satire aims to disrupt the relationship between postcolonial literature and magic realism, by discussing the work of writers such as G. V. Desani, Aubrey Menen, Salman Rushdie, and Irwin Allan Sealy as one movement into the entirely subversive realm of satire. Indian fiction, and the fiction of other colonized cultures, can be re-construed through the lens of satire as openly critical of a broad spectrum of political and cultural issues. Employing the strengths of postcolonial theory and criticism, Postcolonial Satire expands upon the postcolonial works of these authors by analyzing them as satire, rather than magical realism with satirical elements.
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Edition
1/2019
Copyright Year
2019
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-7196-8
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-7197-5
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
209
Product Type
Monograph
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Acknowledgments No access
Chapter One: Menippean Satire and Counter-realism in Indian Postcolonial Fictions No access Pages 1 - 48
Chapter Two: G. V. Desani’s Postcolonial Menippean Satiric Subversions No access Pages 49 - 82
Chapter Three: Aubrey Menen and Menippean Wit No access Pages 83 - 108
Chapter Four: Salman Rushdie’s Menippean Strategies of Language No access Pages 109 - 142
Chapter Five: Irwin Allan Sealy’s Menippean Strategies of Form No access Pages 143 - 176
