Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Preface xi
6. Introduction: Preliminary Convulsions 1
7. Punch Lines
8. Caliban and His Progeny 25
9. Inferiority Complexions: The London Charivari 47
10. White Mischief: Evelyn Waugh’s African Charivari 73
11. Joyce Cary’s Tragic African Clown 92
12. Passages To Elsewhere
13. Forster’s Funny Bridge Party: Nation and Humour in A Passage to India 113
14. Roman Catholic Carnival: Muriel Spark’s Passage to Jerusalem 137
15. The Far and the Near: Pym and Taylor 160
16. The Empire Laughs Back
17. Samuel Selvon and the Carnival of Reverse Colonization 179
18. Rerouting the Comic: Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses 203
19. A Funny Kind of Englishman: Hanif Kureishi’s Carnival of Ethnicities 228
20. Some Subtleties of the Isle: Matthew Kneale’s Anti-Tempest 248
21. The Empire Laughs Last 269
22. Notes 281
23. Bibliography 291
24. Index 303