M.A-M.A English 2nd Year AMERICAN LITERATURE (Since 1914) (University of Pune, Pune-2009)

Total No. of Questions : 4

Total No. of Pages : 3

M.A. English (Part - II) (Term End)
AMERICAN LITERATURE (Since 1914)
(Paper - VII) (Group - D) (New Course)
Time : 3 Hours        Max. Marks : 60

Instructions to the candidates:
1) All questions are compulsory.
2) All questions carry equal marks.

Q1) Explain with reference to the context (any THREE) :

a) Friends make pretence of following to the grave
But before one is in it, their minds are turned
And making the best of their way back to life
And living people, and things they understand

b) She was ours
In Massachusetts, in Virginia,
But we were England’s still colonials,
Possessing what we still were unpossessed by,
Possessed by what we now no more possessed

c) Beauty is momentary in the mind –
The fitful tracing of a portal;
But in the flesh it is immortal

d) Shall she not find in comfort of the sun,
In pungent fruit and bright, green wings, or else
In any balm or beauty of the earth,
Things to be cherished like the thought of heaven?

e) I lived with the boys. They hated me ‘cause I was hard. I hated them’
cause they was soft. They coveted the farm without knowin’ what it
meant. It made me bitter n’ wormhood. It aged me – them coveting what
I’d made fur mine!

Q2) a) Answer any ONE of the following in not more than 850 words :

i) “In The Sound and the Fury Faulkner associates Dilsey’s dignity and power of endurance with universal truths and values which will become the final means of judging the Compsons.” Discuss.

OR

b) Write short notes on any Two of the following in about 400 words each:

i) Critique of the West in African poetry.
ii) Soyinka's treatment of time and history in A Dance of the Forests.
iii) Social conditions in Cry, the Beloved Country.
iv) Difference between Obeirika and Okonkow.

Q3) a) Answer any One of the following in not more than 850 words:

i) Discuss the narrative significance of the tribal festivals in Things Fall Apart.

ii) How are the actions of the major characters in Cry, the Beloved Country determined by emotional powers like faith, love and forgiveness? Elucidate.

OR
b) Write short notes on any Two of the following in about 400 words each:

i) Stephen Kumalo's journey from loss to a sense of realization
ii) Imagery in 'Agbour Dancer'
iii) European characters in Things Fall Apart
iv) Significance of song and dance in African poetry.
 
Q4) a) Answer any One of the following in not more than 850 words:

i) Discuss, with reference to the texts that you have read, how the threat of disintegration conditions both theme and structure of works in African literature.

ii) Account for the significance given to customs and rituals in African literature. 

Earning:  ₹ 4.00/-