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Proverbs, textuality, and nativism in African literature /

Ad�e�ek�o, Ad�el�ek�e.

Proverbs, textuality, and nativism in African literature / Ad�el�ek�e Ad�e�ek�o. - Gainesville : University Press of Florida, �1998. - 1 online resource (xii, 154 pages)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-152) and index.

My Signifier Is More Native than Yours: Issues in Making a Literature African The Proverb Is the Horse of Words: Figuration and Consciousness in Nativist Tropes Textual Proverbs in Proverbial Texts: Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God and Oladejo Okediji's Rere Run Nothing Is Which Lacks a Story: Native Figures of History in Ayi Kwei Armah's Two Thousand Seasons All That We Do Today Is Narrative Tomorrow: Picturing Reality in Ngugi's Devil on the Cross Figuration and the Limit of Local Knowledge: Osofisan's "Proverbial Story" of Postindependence Fiction in Kolera Kolej Conclusion: Plenty Words Do Not Fill Up a Basket 1. 1 -- 2. 28 -- 3. 50 -- 4. 82 -- 5. 100 -- 6. 117 -- 129.

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English.

0813021243 9780813021249

97040247


African literature--History and criticism.
Proverbs in literature.
National characteristics, African.
Africans--Race identity.
TRAVEL--Special Interest--Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM--General.
African literature.
Africans--Race identity.
National characteristics, African.
Proverbs in literature.
Literatur
Sprichwort
Nativismus
Letterkunde.
Spreekwoorden.
Afrikanen.
Nationale kenmerken.
Roman.
Geschichte 1969-1981.
Languages & Literatures.
African Languages & Literatures.


Afrika
Subsaharisches Afrika
Englisch.


Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

PL8010 / .A28 1998eb

809/.896