02050nam a2200409 a 4500001001200000003000800012006001900020007001500039008004100054010001700095020003700112020003600149020002700185040002100212035002100233050002900254082002100283100002700304245011900331260006000450300001100510504005100521505033100572533015200903600005301055600005001108600005201158650007001210650007101280650002501351650004001376650003501416655002901451710001701480856012601497999001701623ebr10554882CaPaEBRm        u        cr cn|||||||||110608s2011    vau     sb    001 0 eng d  z  2011022867  z9780813931869 (cloth alk. paper)  z9780813931876 (pbk. alk. paper)  z9780813932002 (e-book)  aCaPaEBRcCaPaEBR  a(OCoLC)78594303714aPQ3989.2.K58bZ79 2011eb04a820.9/9609042231 aOnyeoziri, Gloria Nne.10aShaken wisdomh[electronic resource] :birony and meaning in postcolonial African fiction /cGloria Nne Onyeoziri.  aCharlottesville :bUniversity of Virginia Press,c2011.  a178 p.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.0 aIntroduction: 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.  aElectronic reproduction.bPalo Alto, Calif. :cebrary,d2011.nAvailable via World Wide Web.nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.10aKourouma, AhmadouxCriticism and interpretation.10aAchebe, ChinuaxCriticism and interpretation.10aBeyala, CalixthexCriticism and interpretation. 0aAfrican literature (French)y20th centuryxHistory and criticism. 0aAfrican literature (English)y20th centuryxHistory and criticism. 0aIrony in literature. 0aMeaning (Philosophy) in literature. 0aPostcolonialism in literature. 7aElectronic books.2local2 aebrary, Inc.40uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10554882zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view  c91848d91848