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Title: | Jokes and joking relationship in Chinua Achebe's novels |
Author: | Ngonebu, Chinyere L. |
Year: | 2006 |
Periodical: | Okike: an African Journal of New Writing |
Issue: | 48 |
Pages: | 137-161 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Nigeria |
Subjects: | novels humour |
About person: | Albert Chinualumogu Achebe (1930-2013) |
Abstract: | This paper explores how Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe has responded to his universe within the confines of the joke and how this analysis can help in the teaching of Achebe to people from different cultural and political areas. The paper examines how Achebe uses this particular linguistic device to achieve humour and to express his thoughts, and how the expostulation of this form can lead foreign students to greater appreciation of Achebe's work. From Achebe's five novels, 'Things falls apart' (1958), 'No longer at ease' (1963), 'Arrow of God' (1965), 'A man of the people' (1966), and 'Anthills of the savannah' (1988), the author has derived nineteen jokes that form the basis of his analysis. He pays attention to the symbolisms evoked by the jokes, their literary effects, and the plurality of meaning they embody. Bibliogr. [ASC Leiden abstract] |