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Volume : II, Issue : III, April - 2012 'National Consciousness' in Ngugi Wa Thiango's “A Grain of Wheat” Bhushan Vitthal Tagad and Pankaj Ganpat Kolhe DOI : 10.9780/22307850, Published By : Laxmi Book Publication Abstract : The basic objective of this paper is to focus on the rise of nationalist writing is one way of furthering
this revolution in African writers like Chinua Achebe, Ayi-Kwei- Armah, Frantz Fanon, Sylvia Plath, etc. Postcolonial
literature is a branch of postmodern literature concerned with the political and cultural
independence of peoples formerly subjugated in colonial empires. Indian literature in English which is
accessible to us in the west stills its roots in colonial literature and the tensions between East and West. A
European naturalism is often present a concern to posit Africa as an arena within which Western readers can
identify realities, is inherent within much oh this writing. First part of this paper consists a brief note on
nationalism and other aspects of post-colonial theory, key terms and philosophers. In the second part, I
made an attempt to explain the concept of national consciousness in Ngugi Wa Thiango's “A Grain of
Wheat” Keywords : Article : Cite This Article : Bhushan Vitthal Tagad and Pankaj Ganpat Kolhe, (2012). 'National Consciousness' in Ngugi Wa Thiango's “A Grain of Wheat”. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. II, Issue. III, DOI : 10.9780/22307850, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/871.pdf References : - Achebe, Chinua, The Novelist as a Teacher,1965
- Barry ,Peter, Beginning Theiry,2009.
- Frantz Fanon,The Wretched of the Earth,1961.
- Ngugi wa Thiang'o, A Grain of Wheat,1967.
- Ngugi wa Thiang'o, Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature, 1989.
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