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

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In her focus on irony and meaning in postcolonial African fiction, Gloria Nne Onyeoziri refers to an internal subversion of the discourse of the wise and the powerful, a practice that has played multiple roles in the circulation of knowledge, authority, and opinion within African communities.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Onyeoziri, Gloria Nne
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011.
Subjects:
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.
Achebe, Chinua.
Beyala, Calixthe.
Kourouma, Ahmadou.
African literature (English)
African literature (French)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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.

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