Postcolonial Satire: Indian Fiction and the Reimagining of Menippean Satire (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781498571968)

Postcolonial Satire: Indian Fiction and the Reimagining of Menippean Satire positions postcolonial South Asian satiric fiction at the intersection of the cutting-edge territory of political resistance writing and the ancient tradition of Menippean satire. Postcolonial Satire disrupts 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, as well as 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.

Author: Amy L. Friedman
ISBN-10: 1498571964
ISBN-13: 9781498571968
Publisher: Lexington Books
Language: English
Published: 10/16/2019
Pages: 222
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d