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Neo-Victorian Killing Humour: Laughing at Death in the Opium Wars
Marie-luise Kohlke 
Neo-Victorian Humour: Comic Subversions and Unlaughter in Contemporary Historical Re-Visions, Volume: 5, Pages: 71 - 102
Swansea University Author:
Marie-luise Kohlke
Abstract
Via discussion of Peter Nichols' pantomime *Poppy*, George MacDonald Fraser's *Flashman and the Dragon*, and Amitav Ghosh's *Flood of Fire*, this chapter explores the ethical issues arising from the representation of historical trauma and bloodshed, specifically the nineteenth-century...
| Published in: | Neo-Victorian Humour: Comic Subversions and Unlaughter in Contemporary Historical Re-Visions |
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| ISBN: | 9789004336605 9879004336612 |
| Published: |
Leiden, The Netherlands
Brill / Rodopi
2017
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa36096 |
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| Abstract: |
Via discussion of Peter Nichols' pantomime *Poppy*, George MacDonald Fraser's *Flashman and the Dragon*, and Amitav Ghosh's *Flood of Fire*, this chapter explores the ethical issues arising from the representation of historical trauma and bloodshed, specifically the nineteenth-century Opium Wars, through the comic mode. |
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| Keywords: |
black humour, ethics, Amitav Ghosh, imperialism, 'killing humour', George MacDonald Fraser, Peter Nichols, Opium Wars |
| College: |
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Start Page: |
71 |
| End Page: |
102 |