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Shaken wisdom irony and meaning in postcolonial African fiction
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Title
Shaken wisdom [electronic resource] : irony and meaning in postcolonial African fiction / Gloria Nne Onyeoziri.
ISBN
0813932009
9780813932002
081393186X
9780813931869
9780813931876
Published
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012)
Physical Description
1 online resource (178 p. )
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Project MUSE - UPCC 2010-2012 Current Complete Collection Bundle.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2011 Current Complete Collection.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2011 Literature Collection.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 27, 2012
Bibliography
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.
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