a grain of wheat as a national epic of anticolonial struggle

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