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Onyeoziri, Gloria Nne.

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

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Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe ProQuest E-Book	Electronic Book	---	Available

Description	178 p.
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.
Reproduction	Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject	Kourouma, Ahmadou -- Criticism and interpretation.
	Achebe, Chinua -- Criticism and interpretation.
	Beyala, Calixthe -- Criticism and interpretation.
	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.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Author	ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN	9780813931869 (cloth alk. paper)
	9780813931876 (pbk. alk. paper)
	9780813932002 (electronic bk.)