University of Delhi 2006-1st Year B.Com English Contemporary Literature Year : - Question Paper

Q. 1. (a) (i) Aila’s unexpected action of bringing politics into the bourgeois home suggests a new formulation of identity. explain with reference to Gordimer’s My Son’s Story.
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(ii) In Gordimer’s My Son’s Story, as a coloured revolutionary in South Africa who has a ‘colonial mentality’. Sonny-is damned. Do you agree ? provide a reasoned ans.
(b) (i) Write a critical note on the treatment of cultural hybridity in Walcott’s “The Sea is History’ and ‘Names’.
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(ii) Critically analyse Atwood’s ‘Procedures for Underground’ as a journey through the ‘green world’
of myth and delusion.
© (i) Dario Fo’s Accidental Death of an Anarchist is a play about necessary counter-information. explain.
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(ii) Show how literature and politics and inextricably linked in Fo’s Accidental Death ofan Anarchist and Ngugi’s The Trial of Dedan Kimathi.

Q. 2. (a) (i) According to Ngugi, ‘Both as a means of communication and a carrier of culture, language…..has a dual characler.’ Comment with reference to ‘Decolonizing the Mind.’
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(ii) What is the central postcolonial anxiety that Fanon discusses in Black Skin, White Masks ?
(b) (i) How do the personal and the political intersect in Neruda’s “The Way Spain Was"?
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(ii) Construction of gender is a major political concern in contemporary literature. Write a critical note with reference to either Gordimer or Marquez.

Q. 3. (a) In Things Fall Apart, Achebe presents the tensions and conflicts ranging from traditional values and alien culture, the ‘private self and ‘public man’ and their attendant consequences in a pre-colonial society. what are.
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(b) Okonkwo, the central character of Things Fall Apart, is the epitome of the complex cultural ambiguity of the Igbo people . explain.

Q. 4. (a) In Marquez’s Chronicle of a Death Foretold, there in neither a historian nor an authoritative voice in the text: the concept of authority itself becomes enigmatic. Do you agree ? provide a reasoned answer,
(b) Chronicle of a Death Foretold is a parody of romance with ‘uncommon blending of fantasy, fable, and fact’. Comment.

Earning:   Approval pending.