A Grain of Wheat (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Ngugi wa Thiong'o
- First Published: 1967
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: Mid-twentieth century
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: 1950’s, Africa or Africans, Revolutionaries, Blacks, Colonies or colonization, Revolutions, England or English people, War, Farms, farmers, or farming, Great Britain
- Locales: Kenya
Places Discussed
*Kenya. East African nation that became independent from the British Empire in 1963. While the novel embraces the whole nation of Kenya, from its “one horizon” touching the Indian Ocean to its “other,” touching the shores of the great Lake Victoria, it focuses on central Kenya’s Gikuyu (also known as Kikuyu) people, from whom British settlers took large tracts of the country’s best land for their own use. Indeed, land was central to the colonial conflict—to both the settler farmers and the agricultural Gikuyu. As a result, place in this novel is...
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