Proverbs, textuality, and nativism in African literature /

Adéèkó, Adélékè.

Proverbs, textuality, and nativism in African literature / Adélékè Adéèkó. - 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.
Africans.
Littérature africaine--Histoire et critique.
Proverbes dans la littérature.
Africains.
Africains--Identité ethnique.
TRAVEL--Special Interest--Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM--General.
African literature.
Africans--Race identity.
National characteristics, African.
Proverbs in literature.
Literatur
Sprichwort
Nativismus
Roman
Letterkunde.
Spreekwoorden.
Afrikanen.
Nationale kenmerken.
Languages & Literatures.
African Languages & Literatures.
Geschichte 1969-1981.


Afrika
Subsaharisches Afrika
Englisch.


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Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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