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1 online resource (xii, 154 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-152) and index. |
| Contents |
1. My Signifier Is More Native than Yours: Issues in Making a Literature African 1 -- 2. 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. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
African literature -- History and criticism.
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African literature. |
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Proverbs in literature.
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Proverbs in literature. |
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National characteristics, African.
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National characteristics, African. |
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Africans -- Race identity.
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Africans -- Race identity. |
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Africans. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Adéèkó, Adélékè. Proverbs, textuality, and nativism in African literature. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©1998 0813015626 (DLC) 97040247 (OCoLC)37588565 |
| ISBN |
0813021243 (electronic book) |
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9780813021249 (electronic book) |
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0813015626 (alkaline paper) |
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9780813015620 (alkaline paper) |
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