TY - BOOK AU - Osha,Sanya TI - Naked light and the blind eye SN - 9789956764686 AV - PR9372.9.O84 N355 2017 U1 - 823.6 23 PY - 2017/// CY - Baltimore, Maryland PB - Project Muse KW - Ogoni (African people) KW - Fiction KW - Marriage KW - Postcolonialism KW - Ogoni (Peuple d'Afrique) KW - Romans, nouvelles, etc KW - Mariage KW - Postcolonialisme KW - FICTION KW - General KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Niger River Delta (Nigeria) KW - Niger, Delta du (Nigeria) KW - Nigeria KW - Niger River Delta KW - Electronic books N1 - Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Part I; Part II; Part III; Back cover N2 - At the end of his tether, Solomon Wenku contemplates a life gone awry amid widespread postcolonial squalor. Tani enters his life supposedly as a contrast to his encroaching existential gloom only to speed up the pace of his total collapse. Sanya Osha's cult novel beams a searchlight on what it feels like to survive personally and collectively in unyielding tropical malaise. This web of a narrative pits the rural versus the urban, tradition against modernity with a gallery of immortal characters and with a yearning that sings lushly of freedom UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1523468 ER -