Comedy, Fantasy and Colonialism

Drawing together for the first time original work from international specialists, this book assesses the role and character of comedy and fantasy in colonial societies from India to Ireland, Australia to Cuba, Africa to North America. There are cross-cultural comparisons and consideration of both imperial responses and colonized resistance. The book deals with oral as well as written traditions, the history of comic and fantastic discourse, visual, theatrical and literary representations as well as historical and cultural accounts.

List of illustrations	p. vii
Contributors	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Displacement, dualism and belief: exploring colonial comedy and fantasy	p. 9
Ukcombekcantsini and the fantastic: Zulu narratives and colonial culture	p. 23
The game is up: British women's comic novels of the end of Empire	p. 39
James Morier and the oriental picaresque	p. 58
Cubans on the moon, and other imagined communities	p. 73
Fairies on the veld: foreign and indigenous elements in South African children's stories	p. 89
Magic realism: humour across cultures	p. 104
Mr Punch's crinoline anxiety: the Indian Rebellion and the rhetoric of dress	p. 117
Cape-to-Cairo: Africa in Masonic fantasy	p. 140
Laughing matters: the comic timing of Irish joking	p. 158
Two hundred years of colonial laughter in Malta: Carnival and Pantomime in Malta under British rule	p. 175
Trickster-outlaws and the comedy of survival	p. 189
Capturing the antipodes: an imaginary voyage to Terra Australis	p. 205
Conclusion	p. 218
Selected bibliography	p. 221
Index	p. 233
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