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.
9780813932002 (electronic bk.)
Kourouma, Ahmadou--Criticism and interpretation. Achebe, Chinua--Criticism and interpretation. Beyala, Calixthe--Criticism and interpretation.
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.