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Shaken Wisdom
eBook - Irony and Meaning in Postcolonial African Fiction
ISBN/EAN: 9780813932002
Umbreit-Nr.: 3133264
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 192 S.
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Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 13.09.2011
Auflage: 1/2011
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Format: PDF
DRM: Adobe DRM
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- <p><p>In her focus on irony and meaning in postcolonial African fiction, Gloria Nne Onyeoziri refers to an internal subversion of the discourse of the wise and the powerful, a practice that has played multiple roles in the circulation of knowledge, authority, and opinion within African communities; in the interpretation of colonial and postcolonial experience; and in the ongoing resistance to tyrannies in African societies. But irony is always reversible and may be used to question the oppressed as well as the oppressor, shaking all presumptions of wisdom. Although the author cites numerous African writers, she selects six works by Chinua Achebe, Ahmadou Kourouma, and Calixthe Beyala for her primary analysis.</p><p><i>Modern Language Initiative</i></p></p>