CLASS: B.A. ENGLISH LIT
J066A7
ST. JOSEPH’S COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), TIRUCHIRAPPALLI - 620 002
SEMESTER EXAMINATIONS - APRIL 2007
TIME: 3 Hrs.
I
MAX. MARKS: 100
SEM
SET
PAPER CODE
SUBJECT
VI
2004
04UEN634
SUBALTERN LITERATURE
Annotate any FIVE of the following:
5 x 4 = 20
1. I’ve known rivers
Ancient, dusky rivers
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
2. May it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode.
3. White America never offered these Negro writers any serious criticism. The mere fact that a
Negro could write was astonishing.
4. Endogamy is the only characteristic that is peculiar to caste.
5. Untouchability is an indirect and therefore the worst form of slavery.
6. It is just that I get tired of Him getting credit for all the things the human race achieves
through its own stubborn effort.
7. Lord, I fashion dark gods, too,
Daring even to give you
Dark despairing features where,
Crowned with dark rebellious hair,
8. My color shrouds me in, I am as dirt
Beneath my brother’s heel;
II Answer FIVE of the following in about 100 words each:
9.
5 x 7 = 35
How does Maya Angelou perceive her native town in “My Arkansas”?
10. What are the two definitions concerning the role of Negro writing?
11. Explain the circumstances which force Bigger to kill Mary Dalton inadvertently
12. Describe the role of imitation in the formation of castes.
13. What were the advantages that the slaves had over the untouchables in an unfree social
order?
14. Discuss the important features of the Harlem Renaissance.
15. How does Countee Cullen evoke the pristine and unravished beauty of the African forests in
the poem ‘ Heritage’?
16. Untouable’ is not a propaganda piece because Bakha fights to seek
his identity and steadfastness”. Discuss.
III Answer THREE of the following in about 300 words each:
3 x 15 = 45
17. Discuss the “Niggers” predicament in a Whiteman’s world as revealed in “Native Son”.
18. Summarise Chinua Achebe’s views on the novelist as a teacher.
19. Attempt a character sketch of Beneatha in the play ‘Raisin in the Sun’.
20. ‘Untouchable is a revolutionary novel of protest against the pervading social evil in India”.
Discuss.
21. Discuss The Ecstasy of Rita Joe as a Memory Play.
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