LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE
FIRST SEMESTER – NOVEMBER 2012
EL 1810/1805 – FEMINIST THEORY AND PRACTICE
Date : 07/11/2012 Dept. No. Max. : 100 Marks
Time : 1:00 – 4:00
I Attempt any three of the following in about 400-500 words each: (3×15=45 marks)
- Discuss chick lit as a celebration of the postfeminist woman. What are the pitfalls?
- To what extent can reproduction controlling technologies further the feminist cause?
- Explain the various goals of liberal feminism.
- What are the five types of woman-nature relationships according to Noel Sturgeon?
II Attempt any three of the following in about 400-500 words each, choosing at least one from each group: (3×15=45 marks)
Group I
- Comment on how Maggie puts to use her feminine strengths of desperation and love to win back her husband and security in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
- Show how sisterhood between the whites and the blacks can raise the dignity of women in The Help.
- Bring out the troubled legacy of love and hate in the father-daughter relationship in All My Pretty Ones. What role does love play in redeeming the individual?
Group II
- How does Wangari Maathai record her feminist-environmentalist approach to life in Unbowed?
- Discuss the novel Wide Sargasso Sea as a subversion of Jane Eyre.
- Comment on the use of imagery and symbolism in Maya Angelou’s The Caged Bird.
III Attempt a feminist analysis of any ONE the following poem in about 250-300 words
(1×10=10 marks)
Exiles
Exiled from home. The far sea rolls
Between them and the country of their birth;
The childhood turning impulse of their souls
Pulls half across the earth.
Exiled from home. No mother to take care
That they work not too hard, grieve not too sore;
No older brother nor small sister fair;
No father any more.
Exiled from home; from all familiar things;
The low-browed roof, the glass surrounded door;
Accustomed to labors that gave daylight wings;
Loved steps on the worn floor.
Exiled from home. Young girls sent forth alone
When most their hearts need close companioning;
No love and hardly friendship may they own,
No voice of welcoming.
Blinded with homesick tears the exile stands;
To toil for alien household gods she comes;
A servant and a stranger in our lands,
Homeless within our homes
(OR)
You show me the knife
And deprive me of life
I too wanna live
There is nothing that I cannot do
There is nothing that I cannot achieve
I am your mother
A friend a lover
I give you the strength to fight
And set things right
You hold my hands
I am the one who understands
I have a dream
A dream to belong
Sing my beautiful song
Please do not make this mistake
See me and let me awake
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