- Description
- 1 online resource (178 p.)
- Uniform Title
- Shaken wisdom (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Shaken wisdom (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2011022867
- OCLC
- ssj0000606671
- Author
Onyeoziri, Gloria Nne.
- Title
Shaken wisdom [electronic resource] : irony and meaning in postcolonial African fiction / Gloria Nne Onyeoziri.
- Imprint
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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