A Grain of Wheat as a National epic of Anti-colonial struggle
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This document provides background information on the novel "A Grain of Wheat" by Ngugi wa Thiong'o. It summarizes that the novel focuses on the protagonists' remembrances of the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya, which was an anti-colonial struggle against the British between 1952-1960. The action of the novel centers around the events of the Mau Mau revolt and the birth of a new, independent Kenya. The document also notes that the novel can be seen as a "collective act of recalling and reflecting on the past" that narrates the formation of a nation through sacrifice and struggle against colonial powers.
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- 3. The West White colonizers The Power Patriarchal man Fatherland The Rest Nonwhites colonized Have-not power womanized Motherland
- 4. Condition of African Labors Mau Mau Rebellion
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- 6. Mau Mau Rebellion Physical Psychological Political impact The novel can be summarized as a ‘collective act of recalling and reflecting on the past’ that is a narration of nation.
- 8. The whole novel can indeed be summarized as a collective act of recalling and reflecting on the events leading to Uhuru, in order to understand what actual meaning it should have for Thabai peasants. That would be held on Kenya’s Independence Day. Kihika, a Mau Mau rebel who sacrificed his life to fight for Kenya’s freedom during the Mau Mau rebellion. People tries to struggle for their own Uharu and it is the main and central idea of Novel .
- 9. Anti-Colonial Struggle The action of novel focuses on the protagonists’ remembrances of the events of the ‘Mau Mau ’ Revolt- the birth of a new Kenya.
- 10. The author choose Christianity as a knife to tear apart the society. “ They looked beyond the laughing face of the Whiteman and suddenly saw a long line of other red stranger who carried, not the Bible, but the sword.”
- 11. Theme of Sacrifice “A Grain of Wheat” can be called ‘impossible irony’ of nationalism in the words of Terry Eagleton