Shaken wisdom [electronic resource] : irony and meaning in postcolonial African fiction / Gloria Nne Onyeoziri.
Material type: TextPublication details: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011Description: 178 pISBN: 9780813932002 (electronic bk.)Subject(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 literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 820.9/960904 LOC classification: PQ3989.2.K58 | Z79 2011Online resources: Click to ViewIncludes 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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