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Allegory and Meaning

Ikenna Dieke
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      Allegory and Meaning is the study of the allegorical-cum-symbolic mode in selected African, African American, and Caribbean literary works. It argues that the domain of allegory in these works constitutes, at bottom, a contested site of paradoxes. The discussion of these African, African American, and Caribbean writers' use of the allegorical mode is a serious attempt to recover the subtext of their works. The stories these writers tell are quite often thinly veiled. The events, characters, space, and time in their narratives are presented, first in their literal context, and then, in the other, larger context, the ideas that they are intended to convey or the significance they potentially bear. From Soyinka's political allegory in Season of Anomy to Okigbo's astral kratophany in Labyrinths; from Baraka's agonistic moral allegory in Palace of the Peacock, and V.S. Reid's apocalyptic allegory in New Day, these writers demonstrate the processes of double signification where the order of words represents actions and characters, and the actions and characters in turn represent ideas.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Ikenna Dieke EAN: 9780761851219 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 299 g HEIGHT: 232 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: University Press of America DATE PUBLISHED: 2010-11-02 CITY: GENRE: LITERARY COLLECTIONS / African, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / African American & Black, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Caribbean & Latin American, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies WIDTH: 155 cm SPINE:

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      Anthologies: general, Gender studies, gender groups, Gender studies: women and girls

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      Ikenna Dieke earned his Ph.D. in English at the Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. He is the author of two books and numerous articles. Currently, Dieke is a professor of Africana at the University of Arizona.
      Allegory and Meaning is the study of the allegorical-cum-symbolic mode in selected African, African American, and Caribbean literary works. It argues that the domain of allegory in these works constitutes, at bottom, a contested site of paradoxes. The discussion of these African, African American, and Caribbean writers' use of the allegorical mode is a serious attempt to recover the subtext of their works. The stories these writers tell are quite often thinly veiled. The events, characters, space, and time in their narratives are presented, first in their literal context, and then, in the other, larger context, the ideas that they are intended to convey or the significance they potentially bear. From Soyinka's political allegory in Season of Anomy to Okigbo's astral kratophany in Labyrinths; from Baraka's agonistic moral allegory in Palace of the Peacock, and V.S. Reid's apocalyptic allegory in New Day, these writers demonstrate the processes of double signification where the order of words represents actions and characters, and the actions and characters in turn represent ideas.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Ikenna Dieke EAN: 9780761851219 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 299 g HEIGHT: 232 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: University Press of America DATE PUBLISHED: 2010-11-02 CITY: GENRE: LITERARY COLLECTIONS / African, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / African American & Black, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Caribbean & Latin American, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies WIDTH: 155 cm SPINE:

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      Anthologies: general, Gender studies, gender groups, Gender studies: women and girls

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      Ikenna Dieke earned his Ph.D. in English at the Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. He is the author of two books and numerous articles. Currently, Dieke is a professor of Africana at the University of Arizona.

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