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020 _a9789956790937
020 _z9789956790203
040 _aMdBmJHUP
_cMdBmJHUP
050 4 _aPR9381.9.I36
_bS757 2013
100 1 _aIkonya, Philo.,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aStill sings the nightbird
_h[electronic resource] /
_cPhilo Ikonya.
260 _aBaltimore, Maryland :
_bProject Muse,
_c2013.
_e(Baltimore, Md. :
_fProject MUSE,
_g2015)
260 _a[Oxford, England] :
_bDistributed in and outside N. America by African Books Collective
_c
_e(Baltimore, Md. :
_fProject MUSE,
_g2015)
260 _aMankon, Cameroon :
_bLangaa Research & Publishing CIG,
_c[2013]
_e(Baltimore, Md. :
_fProject MUSE,
_g2015)
300 _a1 online resource (1 PDF (291 pages).)
500 _aIssued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
520 _aDo we live inside the breasts of our mothers? In the mind and hearts of two women, indeed at their breasts a nation lives. The whole universe is in the lives of the people Philo writes about. They hear the song of the nightjar and it has meaning. Inside a mother's chest her daughter hangs like a silent unvenerated Pieta."Wakabi has eyes inside her breast. She sees from inside there. She knows this story well..." A country's literature is rooted in its history. But when history is full of hardship can authors create books pregnant with optimism? In Still Sings the Nightbird Philo Ikonya defies the currents of hopelessness to point her readers to a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel of nightmares. Out of the lonely cry of a nightjar, the rape of Kabi and indeed of Kenya, appears a light beaming into a brighter future.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
651 0 _aKenya
_vFiction.
655 0 _aElectronic books.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aProject Muse,
_edistributor.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9956790206
_z9789956790203
710 2 _aProject Muse.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9789956790937/
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
999 _c34457
_d34457