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Literary Criticism English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Race Riots

Comedy and Ethnicity in Modern British Fiction

by (author) Michael L. Ross

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Aug 2006
Category
English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780773531093
    Publish Date
    Aug 2006
    List Price
    $125.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773578135
    Publish Date
    Aug 2006
    List Price
    $110.00

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Ross examines racial humour as a manifestation of post-colonialism and questions contemporary critiques of "political correctness." Looking at cartoons from pre-World War II issues of Punch, Ross shows how disdain for non-Europeans plays a key role in period British humour and links this idea to the racial humour in the work of Evelyn Waugh and Joyce Cary. He also demonstrates how these assumptions are later turned on their heads by writers such as Salman Rushdie.

About the author

Michael L. Ross (1936-2024) was professor emeritus at McMaster University and the author of Designing Fictions: Literature Confronts Advertising.

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