Search Results - "Chinua Achebe"

The African trilogy : Things fall apart; Arrow of God; No longer at ease / by Achebe, Chinua

Intertextuality in contemporary African literature looking inward / by Ogede, Ode

Table of Contents: “…from documentary to investigative realism : Cyprian Ekwensi's Jagua Nana and Flora Nwapa's One is enough -- Lampoon, or the power of savage satire, and the visual object of distaste : Chinua Achebe's A man of the people and Ayi Kwei Armah's The beautyful ones are not yet born -- On the politics of love : Chinua Achebe's No longer at ease and Bessie Head's Maru -- Masking the infrastuctural frame : Christopher Okigbo and his acolytes (Labyrinths' aural and thematic echoes in Okinba Launko's Minted coins and Chimalum Nwankwo's The heart in the womb) -- Conclusion: coming out of shadow : eye on the tradition, looking for consequence.…”
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Intertextuality in contemporary African literature looking inward / by Ogede, Ode

Table of Contents: “…from documentary to investigative realism : Cyprian Ekwensi's Jagua Nana and Flora Nwapa's One is enough -- Lampoon, or the power of savage satire, and the visual object of distaste : Chinua Achebe's A man of the people and Ayi Kwei Armah's The beautyful ones are not yet born -- On the politics of love : Chinua Achebe's No longer at ease and Bessie Head's Maru -- Masking the infrastuctural frame : Christopher Okigbo and his acolytes (Labyrinths' aural and thematic echoes in Okinba Launko's Minted coins and Chimalum Nwankwo's The heart in the womb) -- Conclusion: coming out of shadow : eye on the tradition, looking for consequence.…”
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Shaken wisdom irony and meaning in postcolonial African fiction / by Onyeoziri, Gloria Nne

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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Shaken wisdom irony and meaning in postcolonial African fiction / by Onyeoziri, Gloria Nne

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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Writing and cultural influence studies in rhetorical history, orientalist discourse, and post-colonial criticism / by Ezzaher, Lahcen E., 1952-

Table of Contents: “…The Colonial Subject Speaks Back: Chinua Achebe's Critique of Conrad's Heart of Darkness -- The Colonial Encounter in Heart of Darkness -- Chinua Achebe's Critique of Heart of Darkness -- Arrow of God: An African Counter-Narrative -- Ch. 5. …”
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Writing and cultural influence studies in rhetorical history, orientalist discourse, and post-colonial criticism / by Ezzaher, Lahcen E., 1952-

Table of Contents: “…The Colonial Subject Speaks Back: Chinua Achebe's Critique of Conrad's Heart of Darkness -- The Colonial Encounter in Heart of Darkness -- Chinua Achebe's Critique of Heart of Darkness -- Arrow of God: An African Counter-Narrative -- Ch. 5. …”
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Standpoints on African literature : a critical anthology /

Table of Contents: “…--Gachukia, E. W. Chinua Achebe and tradition.--Nyang'aya, E. M. The freakish Tutuola.…”

Standpoints on African literature : a critical anthology /

Table of Contents: “…--Gachukia, E. W. Chinua Achebe and tradition.--Nyang'aya, E. M. The freakish Tutuola.…”