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Kenyan Books (Study Guide): Kenyan Novels, Petals of Blood, Weep Not, Child, World Christian Encyclopedia, a Grain of Wheat, Siku Njema
Paperback. Books LLC 2010-09-14.
ISBN 9781157863618
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This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Kenyan Novels, Petals of Blood, Weep Not, Child, World Christian Encyclopedia, a Grain of Wheat, Siku Njema, Shujaaz, Wizard of the Crow, Carcase for Hounds, Facing Mount Kenya. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Petals of Blood is a novel written by Ngugi wa Thiong'o first published in 1977. Set in Kenya just after independece, the story follows four of the novel's major characters - Munira, Abdulla, Wanja, and Karega - whose lives are all intertwined due to the Mau Mau rebellion. In order to escape city life, each retreats to the small, pastoral village of Ilmorog. As the novel progresses, the characters deal with the repercussions of the Mau Mau rebellion as well as with a new, rapidly modernizing Kenya. The novel largely deals with the scepticism of change after Kenya's liberation from the British Empire, questioning to what extent free Kenya merely emulates, and subsequently perpetuates the oppression found during its time as a colony. Other themes include the challenging of capitalism, politics, and the effects of modernization. Education, schools, and the Mau Mau rebellion are also used to unite the characters, who share a common history with one another. Petals of Blood was Ngugi's first novel written whilst not in full-time education, instead written over a five year period. Initially begun whilst teaching at Northwestern University in 1970, the writer continued to work on the novel after his return to Kenya, finally finishing the novel in Yalta as a guest of the Soviet Writers' Union. Ngugi was inspired to write the novel as a way of synthesizing the notion of a postcolonial nation, and a willingness to portray the agents of social change present in Kenya's change from British East Africa. Petals of Blood w...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=20222362
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