ABSTRACT

Satire plays a prominent and often controversial role in postcolonial fiction. Satire and the Postcolonial Novel offers the first study of this topic, employing the insights of postcolonial comparative theories to revisit Western formulations of "satire" and the "satiric."

chapter |7 pages

Introduction

chapter |38 pages

“The Old Enemy. And Also the New”

V. S. Naipaul's Multidirectional Satire

chapter |36 pages

“In All Fairness”

Satire and Narrative in the Novels of Chinua Achebe

chapter |49 pages

“Pessoptimism”

Satire and the Menippean Grotesque in Salman Rushdie's Novels

chapter |3 pages

Conclusion

chapter |5 pages

Afterword (2002)