LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE
THIRD SEMESTER – NOVEMBER 2012
EL 3803 – POST COLONIAL LITERATURE
Date : 01/11/2012 Dept. No. Max. : 100 Marks
Time : 9:00 – 12:00
- Annotate and interpret any FIVE of the following in 100 words each: (5X4 = 20)
- You may begin
by not shouting-
we are tired of noise.
- English became the main determinant of a child’s progress up the ladder of formal
education.
- My ways are his ways. He knows my will. And custom will and must be respected.
- And at harmattan, the bamboo walls
Are ready tinder for the fire
That dries the fresh fish up on the rack.
- The maize will grow/once when/long rains have come/and army worms have gone.
- And when a wind shook in the limes I heard/What Kipling heard, the death of a great empire, the
abuse/ of ignorance by Bible and by sword.
7.none but the king/ takes the oil from the crossroads/ and rubs in his “awuje”/ the king is a god.
8.Comment on the role of the English language in reclaiming cultural identity.
- Answer any FIVE of the following in 250 words each: (5 x 10 = 50)
- How does Dennis Brutus’ Robben Island Sequence vindicate the violence by one race against
the other?
- How does Rushdie fictionalize history and naturalize myth in Midnight’s Children?
- Enumerate Sneja Gunew’s views on ‘Deculturalizing Cultural Nationalism’? Explain with
internal evidence from the essay.
- Bring out the themes of identity erosion, misuse of power and exploitation, and alienation
in The English Patient.
- Examine the concept of dislocation in Ice- candy Man.
- Show how a feminist perspective brings out the experience of colonization in any one of the essays
by Gayathri Spivak.
- Bring out the postcolonial concerns in the story of Michael K.
- Comment on the life and times of Mr.Biswas.
III. Answer any TWO of the following in 400 words each: (2 x 15 = 30)
- How do Rushdie and Sarasuleri differ in their religious sentiments and views as seen from
their works prescribed for your study.
- Compare the reformist tendencies of Thiong’o and Soyinka as seen from their plays.
- Do you agree that Kongi’s Harvest is a cynical yet realistic commentary on contemporary African
politics.
- Explain postcolonialism. What are some of the major, contemporary concerns it seeks to address?
Answer with reference to the plays prescribed for study.
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