Women as Fighters for their Land Freedom in Wa Thiongo's A Grain of Wheat (1967)

Al-Afifi, Azeema

doi:10.21608/ihites.2020.24575.1001

Women as Fighters for their Land Freedom in Wa Thiongo's A Grain of Wheat (1967)

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Azeema Al-Afifi

Department of English, Faculty of Arts, Port Said University,Egypt

10.21608/ihites.2020.24575.1001

Abstract

This paper is planned to show how A Grain of Wheat (1967) epitomizes the Africana womanist vision. It attempts to sketch out the Africana womanist mottos that are adopted by Kenyan female figures within the Emergency period (1952-1962); a stage before Kenyan Independence. In this concern, it pays abundant attention to the cause of Kenyan women during that time and uncovers the conditions they have been put inside. Kenyan women have suffered under inimical situations and unfavorable provocations which could not be easily. Still, illuminated by the Africana womanist principles, Kenyan women have been able to persist and demonstrate their distinct capacities. With regard to this, the present paper tries to pinpoint all the aspects of domination they have been yoked by in the years preceding Independence, on the basis of Hudson-Weems' Africana Womanism hypothesis. It gets into consideration some of the particular Africana notions embodied certain elements such as the women harmony, the collective resistance to Africana patriarchal reality, the reverence for the aged, the female fellowship, the spirit of concerted enterprise, and certainly some of Kenyan female merits. These aspects are to be thoroughly examined to prove the relevance of Wa Thiongo's Africana views throughout the Emergency phase.

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Main Subjects

Education, general

Article History

Receive Date: 2019/8/5

Revise Date: 2019/9/4

Accept Date: 2019/9/22

Publish Date: 2019/9/25

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