Format:
178 S.
Edition:
1. publ.
ISBN:
9780813932002
,
9780813931876
,
9780813931869
Note:
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.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813932002
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Afrika
;
Literatur
;
Ironie
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