Shaken wisdom irony and meaning in postcolonial African fiction /
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| Formaat: | Elektronisch E-boek |
| Taal: | Engels |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2011.
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Inhoudsopgave:
- 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.