Satiric Worlds of William Boyd

The Author: Juan F. Elices (1975) is a Lecturer at the Department of English Studies (UNED-Madrid) where he teaches 18th and 19th-Century English Literature and Postcolonial Literatures in English. He studied English Philology at the University of Alcalá (Madrid). In 1999 and 2000, he was Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Cambridge University, respectively. He obtained his Ph.D. with honours in English Literature from the University of Alcalà in 2003. He was awarded the «Premio Extraordinario de Doctorado» for his doctoral thesis.

• Contents: William Boyd’s Narrative Production – A Good Man in Africa as Political and Anti-Colonial Satire – Anti-War Satire in An Ice-Cream War – Stars and Bars: Great Britain and the United States at Boyd’s Satiric Stake – The Relationship between Satire and Cinema: «The Destiny of Nathalie ‘X’» – Conflicts of Identity: Armadillo’s Satiric Approaches to City Life.