LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

THIRD SEMESTER – APRIL 2012

EL 3803 – POST COLONIAL LITERATURE

 

 

Date : 24-04-2012             Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 1:00 – 4:00

 

1. Write short notes on any FIVE of the following in about 100 words each:       (5×4 = 20)
2. Besides, it is the custom and tradition on this our ridge. Even the white man’s wisdom and learning must conform to this law.
3. And both your ears, notched

As bondsman to this house

Are all relics of your first comings.

3. You may begin

By not shouting

We are tired of noise.

4. English became the main determinant of a child’s progress up the ladder formal education.

1. A spade below dead leaves will ring the bone

Of some dead animal or human thing

Fallen from evil days, from evil times.

6. “…that day

shall find many

in the invalid home”.

7. “Part of the continent, piece of the main”.
8. Ism to ism for ism is ism

Of isms and isms on absolutism.

 

1. Answer any FIVE of the following in about 250 words each: (5×10 = 50)    
2. How does Abiku bring out the African tradition and beliefs?
3. Discuss how The Rebels becomes the manifesto for a modern Africa.
4. Bring out the humour in Jero’s Metamorphosis.
5. Comment on the style of Midnight’s Children.
6. Discuss the allegorical significance of the poem,

1. Write a paragraph on the aspect of cultural hybridity in A House for Mr. Biswas.

15. Discuss the postcolonial themes presented in The English Patient.
16. Analyze any work of art prescribed in the syllabus from the postcolonial perspective.

 

 

III. Answer any TWO of the following in about 400 words each:                                   (2×15 = 30)

17. Discuss the themes and issues involved in studying Postcolonial Literature.
18. How do Rushdie and Sarasuleri handle the themes of penance and expiation in their novels?
19. “Human identity is not only not natural and stable, but constructed, and occasionally even invented outright” – Edward Said. Discuss the statement with regard to the play, Kongi’s Harvest.
20. Evaluate the symbolic depiction of the greatness and the decay of the Colonial Empire in the poem, Ruins of a Great House, by Derek Walcott.

 

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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

 

1. Annotate and interpret any FIVE of the following in 100 words each: (5X4 = 20)

 

1. You may begin

by not shouting-

we are tired of noise.

 

2. English became the main determinant of a child’s progress up the ladder of formal

education.

 

3. My ways are his ways. He knows my will. And custom will and must be respected.

 

4. And at harmattan, the bamboo walls

Are ready tinder for the fire

That dries the fresh fish up on the rack.

 

5. The maize will grow/once when/long rains have come/and army worms have gone.

 

6. 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.

 

1. Answer any FIVE of the following in 250 words each: (5 x 10 = 50)

 

9. How does Dennis Brutus’ Robben Island Sequence vindicate the violence by one race against

the other?

 

10. How does Rushdie fictionalize history and naturalize myth in Midnight’s Children?

 

11. Enumerate Sneja Gunew’s views on ‘Deculturalizing Cultural Nationalism’? Explain with

internal evidence from the essay.

 

12. Bring out the themes of identity erosion, misuse of power and exploitation, and alienation

in The English Patient.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

13. Examine the concept of dislocation in Ice- candy Man.

 

14. Show how a feminist perspective brings out the experience of colonization in any one of the essays

by Gayathri Spivak.

 

15. Bring out the postcolonial concerns in the story of Michael K.

 

16. Comment on the life and times of Mr.Biswas.

 

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

 

17. How do Rushdie and Sarasuleri differ in their religious sentiments and views as seen from

their works prescribed for your study.

 

18. Compare the reformist tendencies of Thiong’o and Soyinka as seen from their plays.

 

19. Do you agree that Kongi’s Harvest is a cynical yet realistic commentary on contemporary African

politics.

20. 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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