Igereka and Other African Narratives


Release date : Tuesday 01 january 2002
Genre : Novel

Book ISBN number : 9966251073
Pages : 168

Year : 2002
Principal country concerned : Column : Literature

Novel by Yusuf K. Dawood.

One day the king's men are out hunting and find Igreka, starving and neglected to such a degree that they are unsure whether he is human or animal. Igeraka soon falls in love with the king's daughter, Nyangunga, who according to some, marries a beast. The author's concern is how to present the story telling it from three different perspectives. First Nyangunga's father, the king, gives an account; the middle part of the story is told by Bubi, a second daughter who lets events speak for themselves, concealing herself, her age and gender, as narrator. Finally Nyangunga's mother describes her daughter's fate from a less compromising, feminist perspective.

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format : 229 x 152 mm

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