Title Shaken wisdom : irony and meaning in postcolonial African fiction / Gloria Nne Onyeoziri.

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Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011.

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Description	1 online resource (178 pages)
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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Summary	In her focus on irony and meaning in postcolonial African fiction, Gloria Nne Onyeoziri refers to an internal subversion of the discourse of the wise and the powerful, a practice that has played multiple roles in the circulation of knowledge, authority, and opinion within African communities.
Subject	Kourouma, Ahmadou -- Criticism and interpretation.
	Achebe, Chinua -- Criticism and interpretation.
	Beyala, Calixthe -- Criticism and interpretation.
	Achebe, Chinua. (OCoLC)fst00037402
	Beyala, Calixthe. (OCoLC)fst00231313
	Kourouma, Ahmadou. (OCoLC)fst00064505
	African literature (French) -- History and criticism -- 20th century.
	African literature (English) -- History and criticism -- 20th century.
	Irony in literature.
	Meaning (Philosophy) in literature.
	Postcolonialism in literature.
	LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
	LITERARY CRITICISM -- African.
	African literature (English) (OCoLC)fst00799849
	African literature (French) (OCoLC)fst00799857
	Irony in literature. (OCoLC)fst00979394
	Meaning (Philosophy) in literature. (OCoLC)fst01013156
	Postcolonialism in literature. (OCoLC)fst01073035
Chronological Term	1900 - 1999
Genre/Form	Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
Other Form:	Print version: Onyeoziri, Gloria Nne. Shaken wisdom. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011 9780813931869 (DLC) 2011022867 (OCoLC)729863262
ISBN	9780813932002 (electronic bk.)
	0813932009 (electronic bk.)

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