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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

THIRD SEMESTER – APRIL 2007

EL 3803 – POST CALONIAL LITERATURE

 

 

 

Date & Time : 24.04.2007/9.00-12.00   Dept. No.                                                                     Max. 100 Marks

 

 

 

 

PART – A

 

I Answer the following in 50 words each:                                                                                     10 x 3 = 30

 

1. From the recognition of us as the Magi, it is one step to his inevitable apotheosis.

• Bring out the significance of this line.

1. She is the Chief’s daughter.  I don’t know her.  But I hear she has not even been to school.

• Identify the speaker. In what ways is ‘She’ related to the speaker?

1. You may begin

by not shouting –

we are tired of noise.

– Comment on these lines.

1. No longer then bestride the threshold.

But step in and stay

For good.

– What is meant is these lines?  Explain.

1. Marble as Greece, like Faulkner’s south in stone,

Deciduous beauty prospered and is gone:

-What is referred to as ‘gone’? Explain.

1. Decolonization is the process of revealing and dismantling colonist power in all its forms.  – Comment on these lines.
2. Euro-centrism is 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.
3. Globalization is the process where by individual lives and local communities are affected by economic and cultural forces that operate world – wide

– Bring out the significance.

1. Mimicry has come to describe the ambivalent relationship between colonizer and colonized.  –  Illustrate.
2. The concept of ‘negritude’ implied that all people of negro descent shared certain inalienable essential characteristics.  – Explain

 

 

PART – B

 

II Answer any EIGHT of the following in 150 words each:                                                          8 x5 = 40

 

 

1. Identify any TEN postcolonial problems as seen from the texts prescribed for your study, from Africa and West Indies.  Give suitable examples and quotes.
2. Do the Wound in the Heart  and The Rebels focus on the same theme or issue?  Explain.
3. Comment on Walcott’s views on colonialism as seen in ‘Ruins of A Great House’
4. How does soyinka reform religion in Jero’s Metamorphosis?
5. Critically evaluate Isaac Mruma’s ideas in ‘Just sit, oppressor, just sit’.
6. Write briefly on the similarities between feminism and post-colonialism.
7. How do Marxist theories appeal for post-colonial societies.
8. Write a paragraph on the interrelationship between modernism and post-colonialism.
9. Write a short note on the limitations of post-colonial theory
10. Comment on the themes of Imperialism, Colonialism and Nationalism in The English Patient.

 

PART – C

 

III Answer any TWO of the following in 400 words each:                                                        2 x 15 = 30

 

1. a) Critically review Soyinka’s ideas and views on politics as seen from his play Kongi’s Harvest.

Or

1. b) How are East African postcolonial themes different from West Indian themes?

Discuss.

 

1. a) Comment on the theme of Quest for Identity in A House For Mr. Biswas.

Or

1. b) The Midnight’s Children is the story of a questing – hero from Bombay to Delhi –

 

 

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