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
Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-152) and index
1 - My Signifier Is More Native than Yours: Issues in Making a Literature African - 1 -- - 2 - The 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
