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

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2011022867
ISBN9780813931869 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780813931876 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780813932002 (e-book)

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