LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034 M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

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THIRD SEMESTER – NOV 2006

         EL 3803 – POST COLONIAL LITERATURE

 

 

Date & Time : 25-10-2006/9.00-12.00    Dept. No.                                                       Max. : 100 Marks

 

 

PART – A

 

1. Answer the following in 50 words each: (10 x 3 = 30 marks)

 

1. … You all have been a change. The last of the tribe falls and with him, a generation.

Behold the old passes away, and the new comes.

• Identify the speaker.  What forces him opine so?

 

2. FIFTH: Ah yes.  Nor proverbs nor verse, only ideograms in algebraic quantums.  If the

square of XQY (2bc) equals QA into the square root of X, then the progressive forces

must prevail over the reactionary in the span of .32 of a single generation.

• Bring out the importance of these lines.

 

3. And when a wind shook in the lines I heard

What kipping heard; the death of a great empire, the abuse

Of ignorance by Bible and by sword.

• Comment on these lines.

 

4. Then step in, step in and stay,

For her body is tired,

Tired, her milk going sour

Where many more mouths gladden the heart.

• Who is addressed this way and why?

 

5. I plead fighting underdevelopment

Tougher than combating colonialism

• What picture of Tanzania is presented here?

 

6. The condition of exile involves the idea of a separation and distancing from either a literal

homeland or from a cultural and ethnic origin.  – Comment on these lines.

 

7. The conscious or unconscious process by which Europe and European cultural

assumptions are constructed as or assumed to be, the normal, the natural or the universal.

– Explain.

 

8. Mimicry in post-colonial theory has come to describe the ambivalent relationship between

colonizer and colonized.  – Bring out the significance.

 

9. In general terms, the ‘other’ is anyone who is separate from one’s self. Illustrate.

 

10. Decolonization is the process of revealing and dismantling colonist power in all its b

forms.  – Explain.

PART – B

 

1. Answer any EIGHT of the following in 150 words each:                    (8 x 5 = 40 marks)

 

11. Comment on the themes of Ngugi wa Thiongo as seen from The Rebels and The Wound in

the Heart.

12. How do Pamela and Angira picture the postcolonial problems in their countries?
13. How does Walcott view history in Ruins of a Great House?
14. Critically review Kundi Faraja’s views on postcolonial Tanzania as seen in Saluting

Ujamaa and Development?

15. Write a critique on Abiku so as to bring out the effect of superstition on customs in West

Africa.

16. Write briefly on the salient features of Modernism and Post-Colonialism.
17. Write a short note on the linkage between Feminism and Post-colonialism.
18. How do Marxist theories appeal for Post-Colonial societies?
19. Write a paragraph on the aspect of cultural hybridism in A House for Mr. Biswas.
20. What are the forces tearing people apart during the process of partition in Ice candy Man?

 

PART – C

 

III. Answer any TWO of the following in 400 words each                                     (2 x 15 = 30 marks)

 

21. a) Critically review the themes and concerns in the study of postcolonial Literature with

enough examples.

OR

1. b) How does Soyinka register his protest in his plays to reform this society?

 

22. Consider the African and West Indian poets’ positivism in registering their negative feelings

in their postcolonial poetry.

 

23 a) Comment on the various issues that are portrayed by Michael Ondaatke in The English

Patient.

1. b) The Midnight’s Children is a long journey from Bombay to Delhi – Discuss.

 

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