Shaken wisdom [electronic resource] : irony and meaning in postcolonial African fiction / Gloria Nne Onyeoziri.
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TextPublication details: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011.Description: 178 pSubject(s): - Kourouma, Ahmadou -- Criticism and interpretation
- Achebe, Chinua -- Criticism and interpretation
- Beyala, Calixthe -- Criticism and interpretation
- African literature (French) -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- African literature (English) -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Irony in literature
- Meaning (Philosophy) in literature
- Postcolonialism in literature
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- PQ3989.2.K58 Z79 2011
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: African ironies -- From rhetoric to semantics -- Interpreting irony -- Pragmatics and Ahmadou Kourouma's (post)colonial state -- Chinua Achebe's Arrow of god and the pragmatics of proverbial irony -- Calixthe Beyala: new conceptions of the ironic voice -- Conclusion: when the handshake has become another thing.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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