M.A. (Semester III) Examination, 2017
ENGLISH (PAPER VII)
POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURE
Day Date: Friday, 05-05-2017 Max. Marks: 50
Time: 02.30 PM to 04.30 PM
N.B. All questions are compulsory.
Figures to the right indicate full marks.
Q.1 Complete the following sentences by choosing the correct
alternative.
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The speaker in John Agard's 'Listen Mr. Oxford Don' says that
mugging the is the story of his life.
Jamaican language b)Gikuyu language
Queens English d)Yoruba language
Derek Walcott' in Far Cry from Africa' describes the Mau Mau
Uprising against in Kenya during the 1950s.
British Colonialist French Colonialist
Roman Imperialist Dutch Colonialist
Gwendolyn Brooks in primer for black sex presses of
black people.
Pride Degeneration Curse Degradation
The Zulu refrain, mothoke Mothoka Batho Babang, represents

A person is not a person because of other person
A Person is person because of other people
A person is selfish because of other person
A person is person because of self-interested one
"Thirty six swords piercing my heart" is a biblical allusion which
occursin
A Far Cry from Africa Listen Mr. Oxford Don
Primer for Blocks I Give you Thanks My God
thinks that language as culture is the collective memory
bank of a people's experience in history.
Ngugi waThiong'o Chinua Achebe
Friedrich Schlegel Edward Said
Frantz Fanonclaims bourgeois intellectuals for
Colonial policy against peasants of Africa
Good treatment to lumpen-proletariat
Careful thinking towards themselves
Proper judgment with Africans
Edward Said rejects the false-views of on oriental
languages.
Friedrich Schlegel Chinua Achebe
George Lamming Edward Said
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Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart sets in
Caribbean Islands Kenyaand Uganda
Jamaica and Trinidad Iguedo and Mbanta
10) George Lamming's autobiographical novel, In Castle of My
Skinsets in
Creighton Village Nigerian Village
South Africa Umbanta Village
Q.2 Answer the following question in brief: (any seven) 10
Why dose John Agard violate the rules of grammar in the poem
Listen, Mr. Oxford Don?
How dose Derek Walcott show conflict between civilization and
barbarism in A Far Cry from Africa?
Mention the significance of Biblical allusions used in Barnard
Dadie's I Give you Thanks my God?
How does Jeremy Cronin's poem A person is a Person
express African value system?
What are the consequences of marriage between two different
races in Roberta Sykes' poem Miscegenation?
Trace the significance of punctuation marks and capitalization
used in Gwendolyn Brooks' primer for Blacks.
Q. 3 Write brief answers to any two of the following questions: 06
State how orientalism is a western projection?
What are the major constituents of culture?
Mention two characteristics of postcolonial literature.
Write answers to any two of following questions in brief: 04
Give two example of cultural hybridization by defining the
same.
Mention two colonial policies that become integral to
postcolonial world.
Mention different types of hybridity with suitable
examples.
Q.4 Answer the following question. (Any one) 10
Critically comment on the title of Chinua Achebe's Things
Fall Apart.
Critically discuss the process of decolonization in George
Lamming's In the Castle of my Skin.
Q.5 What are the major functions of indigenous languages in framing
the experience of African people? Discuss it with reference to
Ngugi waThiong The Language of African Literature?