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UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK
Summer Examinations 2015/16
New Literatures in English: Non-Finalists
Time allowed:
2 hours
Seen examination paper
Answer TWO questions; ONE from Section A and ONE from Section B.
Read carefully the instructions on the answer book and make sure that the
particulars required are entered fully on each answer book used.
Do not substantially repeat material submitted for the assessed essays on the
module. None of these questions are repeated for the finalists.
Section A: Answer ONE question.
1. How does Ivan Vladislavic attempt a total representation of urban space in
Portrait With Keys?
2. Discuss the theme of reconciliation in Tsotsi.
3. What is the importance of childhood in The God of Small Things?
4. Write on the representation of technology in Moxyland.
5. ‘Violence desecrates freedom’ (Gordimer, The House Gun). Write an essay
analysing the theme of violence in the House Gun.
6. Analyse the relationship between whiteness, property, and geography in
Wicomb’s Playing in the Light.
7. Write an essay that analyses the relationship between fiction, history, and
trauma in Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun.
8. Analyse the presentation of the connections between memory, family, and
politics in Desai’s Clear Light of Day.
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Section B: Answer any ONE question.
1. Discuss the representation of the “race” in any TWO of the following:
Playing in the Light, The House Gun, District 9.
2. How are literature and arts represented in any TWO of the following:
Disgrace, Clear Light of Day, The Hungry Tide?
3. Write on the narrative styles of any TWO of the following: The Reluctant
Fundamentalist, The God of Small Things, The House Gun.
4. Show how violence is important in TWO of Bitter Fruit, Half of a Yellow
Sun, Disgrace?
5. Write on the theme of the ‘primitive’ with reference to any TWO of Heart of
Redness, The Hungry Tide, Season of Migration to the North.
6. “If you were a real man, you would have killed him on the spot, right there
in the mall, splatter his brains against a window, watch his blood running
all over the floor” (Dangor, Bitter Fruit). Discuss the presentation of
masculinity in any TWO of the following: Bitter Fruit, Tsotsi, Season of
Migration to the North.
7. Discuss the relationship between the country and the city as this is
represented in any TWO of the following: Playing in the Light, Heart of
Redness, Moxyland, Half of a Yellow Sun.
8. Discuss the representation of sexuality and eroticism in any TWO of the
following: Dispatcher: Lost and Found in Johannesburg, Half of a Yellow
Sun, A Season of Migration to the North.
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