Proverbs, textuality, and nativism in African literature / Adéléke Adéè̳kó̳. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adéè̳kó̳, Adéléke.

Adâeõáekõâo, Adâelâeke., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African literature--History and criticism.

African literature.

Proverbs in literature.

National characteristics, African.

Africans--Race identity.

Africans.

Proverbs in literature--Race identity.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 154 p. )

Place of Publication:

Gainesville, Fla. : University Press of Florida, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-8130-2124-3

OCLC:

37588565