Shaken wisdom : irony and meaning in postcolonial African fiction /
Onyeoziri, Gloria Nne.
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press,
2011.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Kourouma, Ahmadou
Achebe, Chinua
Beyala, Calixthe
African literature (French)
African literature (English)
Irony in literature.
Meaning (Philosophy) in literature.
Postcolonialism in literature.