Shaken wisdom [electronic resource] : irony and meaning in postcolonial African fiction / Gloria Nne Onyeoziri.
2011
PQ3989.2.K58 Z79 2011eb
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Shaken wisdom [electronic resource] : irony and meaning in postcolonial African fiction / Gloria Nne Onyeoziri.
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9780813931869 (cloth alk. paper)
9780813931876 (pbk. alk. paper)
9780813932002 (e-book)
9780813931876 (pbk. alk. paper)
9780813932002 (e-book)
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Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011.
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English
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178 p.
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PQ3989.2.K58 Z79 2011eb
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820.9/960904
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.
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.