TY - BOOK AU - Onyeoziri,Gloria Nne ED - Project Muse. TI - Shaken Wisdom: Irony and Meaning in Postcolonial African Fiction SN - 9780813932002 AV - PQ3989.2.K58 Z79 2011 U1 - 820.9/960904 PY - 2011/// CY - Charlottesville PB - University of Virginia Press KW - Beyala, Calixthe KW - Achebe, Chinua KW - Kourouma, Ahmadou KW - Postcolonialism in literature KW - Meaning (Philosophy) in literature KW - Irony in literature KW - African literature (English) KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - African literature (French) 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; Libro Electrónico UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/14200/ UR - http://www.udb.edu.sv/biblioteca/inicio_recursos_electronicos.php ER -