Shaken wisdom [[electronic resource] ] : irony and meaning in postcolonial African fiction / / Gloria Nne Onyeoziri
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Onyeoziri Gloria Nne
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| Titolo: |
Shaken wisdom [[electronic resource] ] : irony and meaning in postcolonial African fiction / / Gloria Nne Onyeoziri
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| Pubblicazione: | Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2011 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (190 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 820.9/960904 |
| Soggetto topico: | African literature (French) - 20th century - History and criticism |
| African literature (English) - 20th century - History and criticism | |
| Irony in literature | |
| Meaning (Philosophy) in literature | |
| Postcolonialism in literature | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Although the author cites numerous African writers, she selects six works by Chinua Achebe, Ahmadou Kourouma, and Calixthe Beyala for her primary analysis. Modern Language Initiative. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Shaken wisdom |
| ISBN: | 1-280-49048-9 |
| 9786613585714 | |
| 0-8139-3200-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910813224903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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