TY  - BOOK
AU  - Onyeoziri,Gloria Nne
ED  - ProQuest (Firm)
TI  - Shaken wisdom: irony and meaning in postcolonial African fiction 
AV  - PQ3989.2.K58 Z79 2011
U1  - 820.9/960904 23
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Charlottesville
PB  - University of Virginia Press
KW  - Kourouma, Ahmadou
KW  - Achebe, Chinua
KW  - Beyala, Calixthe
KW  - African literature (French)
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - African literature (English)
KW  - Irony in literature
KW  - Meaning (Philosophy) in literature
KW  - Postcolonialism in literature
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
UR  - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3444017
ER  -