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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI 600 034
B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION ENGLISH LITERATURE
THIRD SEMESTER NOVEMBER 2017
16UEL3MC03 NEW LITERATURES IN ENGLISH
Date: 10-11-2017 Dept. No. Max. 100 Marks
Time: 09:00-12:00
I. Answer any EIGHT of the following in about 75 words each. × 3 24)
1. Finally, if development is to increase people's freedom, it must be development for the people. It
must serve them, and their interests.
2. This is a grassy ghetto, and no home.
And these are fauna in a museum kept.
The better hunters have prevailed.
3. Under the glimmer of stars and the purple of sunsets dying,
Wan and waste and white, stretch the great lakes away.
4. People in the colonies, she said,
Can't quite understand…
Why, from Waiau to the mountains
It was all father's land
5. Nothing remained
But self-confession. "Madam", I warned,
"I hate a wasted journey I am African."
6. I thank you God for creating me black
For making of me
Porter of all sorrows.
7. command the earth
to receive you
in my name
in my blood.
8. As one grows older
the pebbles grew too
into great stones and
rocks hurled with violence
9. Has anyone come again, sad heart?
No, there is no-one there.
10. You wrong misha. Nobody see us. Mebbe you lucky-get away. But who believe you? You tell one
story, I tell another.
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II. Answer any SIX of the following in about 100 words each. × 6 36)
11. Bring out the views of Northrop Frye on Canadian Literature in English.
12. How does John Neilson describe Australia in the poem "Poor Poor Country"?
13. Write a note on the theme of racial prejudice in Soyinka's "Telephone Conversation."
14. What is the advice given by the narrator to her father in the poem "Words for Father"?
15. Consider George Ryga's play Indian as a social commentary.
16. Show how Chinua Achebe describes the Igbo culture in Things Fall Apart.
17. Analyse briefly the narrative technique used by Henry Lawson in "Shooting the Moon."
III. Answer any FOUR of the following in about 250-300 words. × 10 40)
18. Discuss how Julius K Nyerere explicates the interrelationship of freedom and development with
specific reference to Tanzania.
19. With suitable illustrations from the prescribed poems, examine the dominant themes in New
Literatures in English.
20. Attempt a critical appreciation of A M Klein's poem "Indian Reservation."
21. Delineate Indian by George Ryga as a play that highlights the racial challenges faced by the
oppressed minorities.
22. Consider Chinua Achebe's novel Things Fall Apart as a conflict between tradition and change.
23. Explain the symbolism of the loons in the short story by Margaret Laurence.