Satire and the Postcolonial Novel

<p>Satire plays a prominent and often controversial role in postcolonial fiction. <em>Satire and the Postcolonial Novel</em> offers the first study of this topic, employing the insights of postcolonial comparative theories to revisit Western formulations of "satire" and the "satiric."</p> Introduction; Chapter one Theories of Satire and Postcolonialism; Chapter two “The Old Enemy. And Also the New”; Chapter three “In All Fairness”; Chapter four “Pessoptimism”; Conclusion; afterword_2002 Afterword (2002);