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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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.
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