Postcolonial Masquerades: Culture and Politics in Literature, Film, Video, and Photography (Literary Criticism Andcultural Theory: the Interaction of Text and Society)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: January 5, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780815336495
Subjects: Discourse analysis; Mass Communication Media And Society; Ethnic Sociology; Language Arts & Disciplines; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Postcolonialism; Language; Mass media and culture; General; Media Studies; Literary Criticism & Collections / Theory; Communication
First sentence: The masks of the clown grant the right to confuse, to tease, to hyperbolize life; the right to parody others while talking, the right not to be taken literally, not, "to be oneself ..." the right to rip off masks...