Shaken wisdom irony and meaning in postcolonial African fiction /
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Corporate Author: | |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2011.
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10554882 |
Table of 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.