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Shaken wisdom irony and meaning in postcolonial African fiction /

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Päätekijä: Onyeoziri, Gloria Nne
Yhteisötekijä: ebrary, Inc
Aineistotyyppi: Elektroninen E-kirja
Kieli:englanti
Julkaistu: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011.
Aiheet:
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.
Electronic books.
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Sisällysluettelo:
  • 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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