ENGLISH

Race Riots: Comedy and Ethnicity in Modern British Fiction

By Michael L. Ross

Book information

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Year
2006
ISBN
9780773560130
DOI
10.1515/9780773560130
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4381243 bytes)
Pages
328\322
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-09-26 19:23:34

Description

From Black Mischief to The Buddha of Suburbia, twentieth-century British fiction is rife with racial humour. Challenging the common reluctance to take such comedy seriously, Michael Ross shows how humour directed at ethnic "others" exposes deep-seated national attitudes. Race Riots explores the development and implications of racial comedy in British literature from the early twentieth century to the present.

Similar books