Shaken wisdom : irony and meaning in postcolonial African fiction /

Shaken wisdom : irony and meaning in postcolonial African fiction / / Gloria Nne Onyeoziri.

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Shaken wisdom [electronic resource] : irony and meaning in postcolonial African fiction / 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.
Kourouma, Ahmadou Criticism and interpretation.
Achebe, Chinua Criticism and interpretation.
Beyala, Calixthe Criticism and interpretation.
African literature (French) 20th century History and criticism.
African literature (English) 20th century History and criticism.
Irony in literature.
Meaning (Philosophy) in literature.
Postcolonialism in literature.
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