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Onyeoziri, Gloria Nne.

Shaken wisdom irony and meaning in postcolonial African fiction / [electronic resource] : Gloria Nne Onyeoziri. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011. - 178 p.

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.

ISBN: 9780813932002 (electronic bk.)

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Subjects--Personal Names:
Kourouma, Ahmadou--Criticism and interpretation.
Achebe, Chinua--Criticism and interpretation.
Beyala, Calixthe--Criticism and interpretation.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
African literature (French)--History and criticism.--20th century
African literature (English)--History and criticism.--20th century
Irony in literature.
Meaning (Philosophy) in literature.
Postcolonialism in literature.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PQ3989.2.K58 / Z79 2011

Dewey Class. No.: 820.9/960904