Shaken wisdom
Subtitle: irony and meaning in postcolonial African fiction
By: Gloria Nne Onyeoziri
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9780813931869; 9780813931876; 9780813932002
Subjects: African literature (French); Postcolonialism in literature; Irony in literature; African literature (English); Meaning (Philosophy) in literature; History and criticism; Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: African ironies; title: From rhetoric to semantics; title: Interpreting irony; title: Pragmatics and Ahmadou Kourouma's (post)colonial state; title: Chinua Achebe's Arrow of god and the pragmatics of proverbial irony; title: Calixthe Beyala: new conceptions of the ironic voice; title: Conclusion: when the handshake has become another thing.