Comedy, Fantasy and ColonialismGraeme Harper 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. |
Contents
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Ukcombekcantsini and the fantastic Zulu narratives and colonial culture | 23 |
The game is up British womens comic novels of the end of Empire | 39 |
James Morier and the oriental picaresque | 58 |
Cubans on the moon and other imagined communities | 73 |
Fairies on the veld foreign and indigenous elements in South African childrens stories | 89 |
Magic realism humour across cultures | 104 |
CapetoCairo Africa in Masonic fantasy | 140 |
Laughing matters the comic timing of Irish joking | 158 |
Two hundred years of colonial laughter in Malta Carnival and Pantomime in Malta under British rule | 175 |
Tricksteroutlaws and the comedy of survival | 189 |
Capturing the antipodes an imaginary voyage to Terra Australis | 205 |
Conclusion | 218 |
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