Abstracts/Chapters sought:
"Fabulous and Funny: Comedy, Fantasy and Colonialism".
This book, one of two originally conceived as a single-authored text, has
attracted such a great deal of interest from colonial and postcolonial
scholars around the world that the publisher has expressed an interest in
creating from the original idea a collection of chapters from scholars
worldwide. Chapters can be concerned with culture, history, texts (whether
literature, film or otherwise), general social conditions, approaches to
comedy and fantasy in colonized societies, traditional indigenous and
imperial ideas of comedy and/or fantasy etc etc.
Suggested topics for chapters in Fabulous and Funny could be:
Carnivals, parades and extravanganzas
What's funny in the non-western world?
Fantasy in the Asian and/or African world
Magical realism and Latin America
Fantasy and the Dreamtime in Australia
Peasant culture: poverty and popular entertainment
Colonial satires on imperialism
Cross-culture comedy: adopting European traditions
Traditional Magic and reactions to Colonialism
Fantasies of Escape or comedies of survival
Or another topic concerned with the fantastic, the funny and the
colonial world.
Abstracts should be sent ASAP to Dr Graeme Harper,
University of Wales at: g.harper@bangor.ac.uk
The publisher is very keen to see this book completed for publication in
2000/1.
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