Interpreting Nguji’s A Grain Of Wheat From The Perspective Of Postcolonial Feminism

Nguji wa Thiong’s is recognized as the greatest Kenyan writer in Africa and a leading figure in the literary world of East Africa,playing an important role in the entire history of African literature.Nguji has a great interest in postcolonial women,and his attention to postcolonial women is scattered in the narratives of various works,with A Grain of Wheat as a typical representative.Exploring the fate of postcolonial women in the works is crucial for understanding Nguji’s feminist ideas.This paper is divided into three chapters.The first chapter explores the survival difficulties of Kenyan women,analyzes their social,physiological,and spiritual representations,and reveals the “aphasia” state that women in Kenya are in.Chapter 2explores the reasons for women in Kenya’s “aphasia” from three aspects: “racial oppression”,“patriarchal prejudice” and “religious customs”,indicating that the“aphasia” status of women in Kenya is the result of multiple marginalization.Chapter3 analyzes the resistance strategies of women in Kenya and same-sex alliances,reshaping themselves,and establishing harmonious and symbiotic relationships with men,revealing that women in Kenya gradually find feasible “speak” strategies in their continuous resistance struggle,and ultimately construct women’s discourse power.Nguji’s works reveal the survival status of women in Kenya who have been marginalized multiple times.He attempts to call on Third World women to completely break away from their “aphasia” state and speak up for themselves only by starting to think about their own destiny and adopting resistance strategies.Interpreting A Grain of Wheat from the perspective of postcolonial feminism is beneficial for postcolonial women to think about their own way out.Nguji’s writing on the fate of women in Kenya not only highlights his concern and reflection on postcolonial women,but also expresses his affirmation of the value of women in social and political movements.