Europäische Hochschulschriften - Reihe XIV 412

The Satiric Worlds of

A Case Study

von Juan F Elices

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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. 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. : 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: ’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

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