University of Delhi 2006-2nd Year B.Com English Women’s Writing in the 19th and 20th Century Year : IsTYear - Question Paper

Q. 1. Identify the lines in their situation and comment critically on them :
(a) No, I’m not a soldier in your
history, I live in my own tale
With others I select to wake me in the morning.
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Which could not beat so in the verse without
Being current also in the unkissed lips,
And eyes undried because there’s none to ask
The cause they grow moist.
(b) John laughs at me. of course, but 1 expects that in wedding.
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After she began to sing in Chicago, she was consistently discreet. She stayed as a guest in rich people’s houses and she knew that she was being watched like a rabbit in a laboratory. Covered up in bed, with the lights out, she thought her own thoughts, and laughed.
© I’m pore, I’m black, I may be ugly and can’t cook….but I’m here.
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She says, All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my brothers. I had to fight my cousins and my uncles. A girl child ain’t safe in a family of men. But I never thought I’d have to fight in my own house.

Q. 2. (a) What according to Woolf have been the obstacles [ to women’s creativity ? explain with reference to the extracts of A Room of One’s own prescribed in your course.
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explain Freud’s views on female sexuality and feminist readings of the identical.
(b) Write a brief note on the correlation ranging from Gender and Genre.
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Representation of Lesbianism in the texts, prescribed in your course.

Q. 3. In what way does Doris Lessing attempt to redefine woman as both subject and writer in The Golden Notebook ? what are.
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Anna’s descent into madness is as much a breakdown as break-through. explain with reference to The Golden Notebook.

Q. 4. Harriet Jacobs presents a gendered analysis of the system of slavery. explain with reference to Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
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Rasasundari Devi refers to herself as a ‘caged bird’ in her autobiography. Would that be a accurate appraisal of her situation ? explain

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