LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

XA 20

M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

THIRD SEMESTER – November 2008

    EL 3803 – POST COLONIAL LITERATURE

 

 

 

Date : 03-11-08                 Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 9:00 – 12:00

PART – A

1. Answer the following in about 75 words each: (5×3=15 marks)
2. ‘Decolonization’ is the process of dismantling colonist power in all its forms. – Comment on the line.
3. ‘Mimicry’ describes the relationship between the ‘colonizer’ and the ‘colonized’. Illustrate.
4. Explain the concept of ‘native’.
5. Comment on the binary opposites of ‘colonialism’.
6. Explain the concept of the ‘other’ and the ‘self’.

 

1. Answer any THREE of the following in about 150 words each: (3×5=15 marks)
2. Write a short note on the linakage between ‘feminism’ and ‘post-colonialism’.
3. Write the impact of ‘modernism’ on ‘post-colonialism’.
4. How do Marxist theories appeal to post-colonial societies?
5. Write a paragraph on the limitations of post-colonial theory.
6. Cull out the prevalent indigenous literary theories of India.

 

• Answer any ONE of the following in about 400 words each: (1×20= 20 marks)

11. Comment on the theme of Quest for identity in A House for Mr. Biswas.
12. The English Patient analyses the themes of ‘hybridity’, ‘interpolation’, Empowering the subaltern’ and ‘transnationalism’. – Discuss

Part – B

1. Comment on the following lines (extracts from the prescribed portions) briefly after explaining their contexts:  (5×3=15 marks)
2. That day

shall find many

in the invalid home

 

2. See ME

look!

I am

here

I am

Here

3. Ablaze with raze, I thought

Some slave is rotting in the manorial lake,

 

4. Don’t waste my time with apologies. You know who I am of course.
5. You wish to make me a laughing-stock?

 

7. Answer any two of the following in about 200 words:   (2×7.5=15 marks)
8. Analyse intensity of human suffering through Angira’s poem “Hunger”
9. How does Pamela Mordecai in her poem “Protest brothers” bring out the plight of women and the oppressed?
10. Explain Walcott’s feelings and emotions as he looks at the ‘Ruins of a Great House’?

 

• Answer any one of the following in about 400 words:                                   (20 marks)

1. Explain Soyinka’s concept of neo-colonialism through his play Kongi’s Harvest.
2. Compare and contrast the roles and characteristics of Daodu and Segi in Kongi’s Harvest.

 

 

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