Proverbs, textuality, and nativism in African literature /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Adéèkó, Adélékè
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©1998.
Temas:
African literature > History and criticism.
Proverbs in literature.
National characteristics, African.
Africans > Race identity.
Africans.
Littérature africaine > Histoire et critique.
Proverbes dans la littérature.
Africains.
Africains > Identité ethnique.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
African literature.
Literatur
Sprichwort
Nativismus
Roman
Letterkunde.
Spreekwoorden.
Afrikanen.
Nationale kenmerken.
Geschichte 1969-1981.
Languages & Literatures.
African Languages & Literatures.
Afrika
Subsaharisches Afrika
Englisch.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. My Signifier Is More Native than Yours: Issues in Making a Literature African 1
  • 2. The Proverb Is the Horse of Words: Figuration and Consciousness in Nativist Tropes 28
  • 3. Textual Proverbs in Proverbial Texts: Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God and Oladejo Okediji's Rere Run 50
  • 4. Nothing Is Which Lacks a Story: Native Figures of History in Ayi Kwei Armah's Two Thousand Seasons 82
  • 5. All That We Do Today Is Narrative Tomorrow: Picturing Reality in Ngugi's Devil on the Cross 100
  • 6. Figuration and the Limit of Local Knowledge: Osofisan's "Proverbial Story" of Postindependence Fiction in Kolera Kolej 117
  • Conclusion: Plenty Words Do Not Fill Up a Basket 129.

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