TY  - BOOK
AU  - Onyeoziri,Gloria Nne
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Shaken wisdom: irony and meaning in postcolonial African fiction 
AV  - PQ3989.2.K58 Z79 2011eb
U1  - 820.9/960904 23
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Charlottesville
PB  - University of Virginia Press
KW  - Kourouma, Ahmadou
KW  - Achebe, Chinua
KW  - Beyala, Calixthe
KW  - African literature (French)
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - African literature (English)
KW  - Irony in literature
KW  - Meaning (Philosophy) in literature
KW  - Postcolonialism in literature
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - 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
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10554882
ER  -