02050nam a2200409 a 4500 ebr10554882 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 110608s2011 vau sb 001 0 eng d 2011022867 9780813931869 (cloth alk. paper) 9780813931876 (pbk. alk. paper) 9780813932002 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)785943037 PQ3989.2.K58 Z79 2011eb 820.9/960904 23 Onyeoziri, Gloria Nne. Shaken wisdom [electronic resource] : irony and meaning in postcolonial African fiction / Gloria Nne Onyeoziri. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011. 178 p. Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 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. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10554882 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 91848 91848