Shaken wisdom irony and meaning in postcolonial African fiction /

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Hovedforfatter: Onyeoziri, Gloria Nne
Institution som forfatter: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronisk eBog
Sprog:engelsk
Udgivet: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011.
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Indholdsfortegnelse:
  • 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.