There are a group of novels that many critics have categorized as post-colonial, or those that are 'writing back.' These novels include Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, Jack Maggs by Peter Carey, and Foe by J. M. Coetzee. Postcolonialism is also regarded as a form of parody. However, this genre is sometimes distanced from its original purpose, which is writing back at colonial texts. It is a parody that parodies itself. By doing so, postcolonialism widens the scope of parody and its function; that is, if postcolonialism is a parody of colonialism, and if the Gothic is itself a parodic genre,...