Shaken wisdom : irony and meaning in postcolonial African fiction / / Gloria Nne Onyeoziri.
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 178 p. |
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Table of 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.