Proverbs, textuality, and nativism in African literature /
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Gainesville, Fla. :
University Press of Florida,
1998.
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Table of 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.