The House of Hunger by Dambudzo Marechera has been helping literary scholars investigate how colonized people may respond to colonial rule and how they embrace ‘exclusion’ in their own lands. This study examines how the characters reacted to incidents in their lives while struggling to determine their positions in the society in which they live. A close examination shows that colonized people are not treated as citizens but only as objects to be exploited to the maximum extent. While being treated like objects, the characters, being human beings, like to believe they have identities, and they must trace out their positions, though all in vain. This essay argues that The House of Hunger tries to prove, both in its content and form, the impossibility of acquiring ‘self-knowledge’ for the colonized people, and this is the prime concern of Marechera in The House of Hunger. This essay will also explore to what extent The House of Hunger by Dambudzo Marechera is a quest for acquiring ‘self-knowledge’, what initiates the writer to conduct a desperate search for it, and how the colonized people fail to attain ‘self-knowledge’.