M.A. (Semester IV) (CBCS) Examination Mar/Apr-2018
English (Paper VII)
POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURE
Time: 2½ Hours
Max. Marks: 70
Instructions: All questions are compulsory. Figures to the right indicate full marks.
Q.1
Select the appropriate word:
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Benjamin Zephaniah supports Rastafarian Movement which believes in
Non-vegetarianism
Vegetarianism
Materialism
Eurocentric views
is honorary patron of the Vegan Society.
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Homi Bhabha
Benjamin Zephaniah
Partha Chatterjee
"An den I got a dread degree/ in Dreadful Ghettology", these lines occur in
Dis Poetry
The Death of Joy Gardener
The Race Industry
Save Our Sons
The speaker in Benjamin Zephaniah's Save Our Sons tries to save black people from the
silent prayer
silent guns
silent words
silent music
Benjamin Zephaniah mentions the folk dance form of Australia in Everybody is Doing it which is
Fox Trot
Marimba
Sambha
Didgeridoo
The in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Devil on the Cross symbolically represents
colonialism
imperialism
capitalism
all the above
Margaret Laurence's A Jest of God is chiefly concentrates on relationship.
mother-daughter
husband-wife
white-black
capitalist-labour
The literal meaning of the title A Jest of God on Rachel Cameron's life.
God's mockery and fun
God's grace and kindness
God's favour and service
God's wrath and anger
Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Devil on the Cross was first published in
1970
1980
2000
2010
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SLR-HW-202
10) Homi Bhabha thinks cultural diversity as object where culture is an object of empirical knowledge.
a discriminative
an authoritative
an intertextual
an epistemological
11) According to Homi Bhabha, a culture in is ambivalent.
first space
second space
third space
fourth space
12) questions media as an authentic voice in recent representation of indigenous people in Australia.
Marjery Fee
Garreth Griffiths
Homi Bhabha
Partha Chatterjee
13) Partha Chatterjee describes the third model Russification which involves in the imposition of from the top authority.
cultural heterogeneity
cultural ambivalence
cultural homogeneity
religious fanaticism
14) replies to the question whether non-natives or whites can write about natives in her seminal essay Who can Write as Other?
Homi Bhabha
Garreth Griffiths
Marjery Fee
Partha Chatterjee
Q.2
Answer the following questions in brief. (Any seven)
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Bring out the significance of language used in The Race Industry.
Figure out the importance of reggae rhythm used in Dis Poetry.
Bring out the consequence of migration as narrated in The Death of Joy Gardener.
Mention the central idea that is brought in Benjamin Zephaniah's Dis Poetry.
Why does the speaker in Save Our Sons insist blacks to cry publically?
How does Benjamin Zephaniah advocate the importance of folk dances in Everybody is Doing It?
Why does Benjamin Zephaniah employ recipe form in the poem The British?
How does the poem Dis Poetry become a personal discourse of the poet?
Q.3

Write brief answers to any two of the following questions:
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What are the key features of race and ethnicity?
Define the term race.
Why does quest for identity become quintessential in postcolonial literature?

Write answers to any two of the following questions in brief:
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How does decolonization play major role in the resistance of colonial politics?
Bring out the major features of any one ethnic group from the texts you have studied.
How does the issue of gender reflect in postcolonial literature?
Q.4
Critically discuss major postcolonial policies represented in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Devil on the Cross.
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OR
Write a note on the major postcolonial issues as reflected in Margaret Laurence's A Jest of God.
Q.5
Write a note on Partha Chatterjee's views on false models to understand the national culture as discussed in his seminal essay Nationalism as Problem.