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The Satiric Worlds of William Boyd Europäische Hochschulschriften - Reihe XIV 412 The Satiric Worlds of William Boyd A Case Study von Juan F Elices 1. Auflage The Satiric Worlds of William Boyd – Elices schnell und portofrei erhältlich bei beck-shop.de DIE FACHBUCHHANDLUNG Peter Lang Bern 2006 Verlag C.H. Beck im Internet: www.beck.de ISBN 978 3 03910 691 2 Inhaltsverzeichnis: The Satiric Worlds of William Boyd – Elices Table of contents Introduction ........................................................................................11 1. William Boyd’s Narrative Production ............................................19 1.1. William Boyd: A Semblance...................................................19 1.2. His Literary Production: Main Features..................................21 2. A Good Man in Africa as Political and Anti-Colonial Satire..........37 2.1. Satiric Antiheroes: the Role of Morgan Leafy ........................37 2.2. Settings as Sources of Satire ...................................................47 2.3. The Evils of Colonialism.........................................................58 2.4. Satire and Politics in A Good Man in Africa ...........................70 3. Anti-War Satire in An Ice-Cream War ...........................................85 3.1. The Role of West, East Africa and Great Britain as Satiric Milieus.....................................................................85 3.2. Characters and Satire: the Case of Felix Cobb and Temple Smith ...................................................................97 3.3. War as Object of Satire .........................................................111 3.4. The “Use” and “Abuse” of Satire in the Downgrading of the British Army ...............................................................123 4. Stars and Bars: Great Britain and the United States at Boyd’s Satiric Stake .................................................................137 4.1. Two Countries, Two Objects of Satire: “Old Britain” and “New America”........................................137 4.2. Satiric Irony and the Subversion of Racial Identity Issues....151 4.3. The Use of Language for Satiric Purposes............................165 9 5. The Relationship between Satire and Cinema in “The Destiny of Nathalie ‘X’” .................................................179 5.1 “The Destiny of Nathalie ‘X’” as a Paradigm of the Satiric Short Story.......................................................179 5.2. Aurélien No or the Concealment of the Immigration Question .................................................188 5.3. Hollywood as Object of Satire ..............................................194 6. Conflicts of Identity: Armadillo’s Satiric Approaches to City Life ...................................................................................205 6.1. The dual identities of the protagonist as Milomre Blocj and Lorimer Black....................................205 6.2. The City of London as a Historical Source of Satire.............224 Conclusions ......................................................................................241 Bibliography .....................................................................................249 Primary Sources ...........................................................................249 Works by William Boyd ..........................................................249 Further Primary Sources ..........................................................249 Secondary Sources .......................................................................250 Reviews of William Boyd’s Production ..................................250 Critical Studies.........................................................................252 10.
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