LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

NM 39

THIRD SEMESTER – April 2009

EL 3803 – POST COLONIAL LITERATURE

 

 

 

Date & Time: 16/04/2009 / 1:00 – 4:00       Dept. No.                                                       Max. : 100 Marks

 

 

PART – A

1. Answer the following in about 75 words each: (5×3=15 marks)
2. ‘Exile’ involves the idea of the separation and distancing from literal and cultural origin. – Comment on these lines.
3. Write a short note on the concept of ‘negritude’.
4. Bring out the significance of ‘globalization’.
5. Comment on the theme of ‘imperialism’.
6. Explain the concept of ‘neo-colonialism’.

 

1. Answer any THREE of the following in about 150 words each: (3×5=15 marks)
2. Write a short note on ‘ambivalence’.
3. Write briefly on the concept of ‘euro-centrism’.
4. Write a paragraph on ‘hybridity’.
5. How do Marxist theories appeal to post-colonial societies?
6. Comment on the theme of colonialism and nationalism.

 

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

11. The Midnight’s Children is about ‘self’, ‘nation’, nationalism’, and ‘hybridity ’and ‘alienation’. – Discuss.
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. rations

will sink

with hunger

and the coiled intestines

will straighten

2. we the people propose

the abolition of you

and us;

3. All in compassion ends so differently

from what the arranged:

4. Let me read it: Every-Ismite-Must-Do- His-Mite!
5. Men know nothing about Segi. They only sing songs about her.

 

7. Answer any two of the following in about 200 words:   (2×7.5=15 marks)
8. How does Angira capture the intensity of hunger and poverty through his poem “Hunger”
9. Explain the stand taken by Pamela Mordecai in her poem “Protest brothers” with regard to Marxist ideologies.
10. Does Walcott marvel or rebuke looking at the ‘Ruins of a great House’?

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

4. Analyse the satirical elements in the play Kongi’s Harvest.
5. Compare and contrast the roles and characteristics of Danlola and Kongi.

 

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