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Proverbs, textuality, and nativism in African literature / Ad�el�ek�e Ad�e�ek�o.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, �1998.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 154 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0813021243
  • 9780813021249
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Proverbs, textuality, and nativism in African literature.DDC classification:
  • 809/.896 21
LOC classification:
  • PL8010 .A28 1998eb
Other classification:
  • 18.07
Online resources:
Contents:
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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  • digitized 2011 committed to preserve
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-152) and index.

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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