a grain of wheat as a national epic of anticolonial struggle
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Topic: ‘A Grain of Wheat’ as a National Epic of Anti-colonial struggle.
Paper:13 The African Literature.
Bhumi Vajani M.A.-2 Sem-4 Roll No:04 Year-2014
Submitted to:-
“A Grain of Wheat”
National Epic
Anti- colonial struggle
‘Mau Mau’ Revolt
Condition of African Labors
Physical
Psychological
Political
The novel can be summarized as a
‘collective act of recalling and reflecting on the past’
that is a narration of nation.
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.
Uhuru -Freedom
The possibility to replace the colonizer with changing the existing social, political and economical structure.
“We get Uhuru today. But what’s the meaning of ‘Uhuru’ ? It is contained in the name of over Movement: Land&
Freedom.-General R. (in his independence
speech)
The New Kenyan
Rabindranath Tagor’s Poem
“A Grain of Wheat” can be
called ‘impossible
irony’ of nationalism in the words of
Terry Eagleton
Submitted To: Dr. Dilip Barad Heenaba Zala
Department of EnglishM.K. Bhavnagar University.
Gujarat