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Shaken Wisdom : Irony and Meaning in Postcolonial African Fiction by Gloria Nne Onyeoziri is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
What is Shaken Wisdom : Irony and Meaning in Postcolonial African Fiction about?
<p>In her focus on irony and meaning in postcolonial African fiction, Gloria Nne Onyeoziri refers to an internal subversion of the discourse of the wise and the powerful, a practice that has played multiple roles in the circulation of knowledge, authority, and opinion within African communities; in the interpretation of colonial and postcolonial experience; and in the ongoing resistance to tyrannies in African societies. But irony is always reversible and may be used to question the oppressed as
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Gloria Nne Onyeoziri
- Publisher
- Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780813932002
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- History, Philosophy, Literary Criticism
- Updated
- 2026-03-25