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----Abstracts/Chapters sought: "Fabulous and Funny: Comedy, Fantasy and Colonialism".
Call open for first rate chapter abstracts. This book, one of two originally conceived as a single-authored texts, 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 in the colonial world 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 connected with the themes of comedy, fantasy 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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