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Shaken wisdom : irony and meaning in postcolonial African fiction
- Title
- Shaken wisdom : irony and meaning in postcolonial African fiction / Gloria Nne Onyeoziri.
- Author
- Onyeoziri, Gloria Nne.
- Publication
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011.
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Details
- Description
- 178 p.; 23 cm.
- Subjects
- Black author
- African literature (French) > 20th century > History and criticism
- Meaning (Philosophy) in literature
- Postcolonialism in literature
- Achebe, Chinua > Criticism and interpretation
- Irony in literature
- Kourouma, Ahmadou > Criticism and interpretation
- Beyala, Calixthe > Criticism and interpretation
- African literature (English) > 20th century > History and criticism
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc D 11-1677
- ISBN
- 9780813931869 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 081393186X (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780813931876 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0813931878 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780813932002 (e-book)
- 0813932009 (e-book)
- LCCN
- 2011022867
- OCLC
- 729863262
- Author
- Onyeoziri, Gloria Nne.
- Title
- Shaken wisdom : irony and meaning in postcolonial African fiction / Gloria Nne Onyeoziri.
- Imprint
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 11-1677