Proverbs, textuality, and nativism in African literature / Adélékè Adéèkó.
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TextPublication details: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©1998.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 154 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 0813021243
- 9780813021249
- 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
- Afrika
- Subsaharisches Afrika
- Roman
- Letterkunde
- Spreekwoorden
- Afrikanen
- Nationale kenmerken
- Languages & Literatures
- African Languages & Literatures
- Geschichte 1969-1981
- Englisch
- 809/.896 21
- PL8010 .A28 1998eb
- 18.07
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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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