Satire and the Postcolonial Novel: V.S. Naipaul, Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie

Satire plays a prominent and often controversial role in postcolonial fiction. Satire and the Postcolonial Novel offers the first study of this topic, employing the insights of postcolonial comparative theories to revisit Western formulations of "satire" and the "satiric."