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Postcolonial Literature Exam Questions

This document outlines the exam for a Ph.D coursework in postcolonial literature. The exam consists of one part with 5 questions, and students must answer any 5 questions providing about 1200 words for each response. The questions cover analyzing themes in postcolonial works like pride and prejudice in Margaret Laurence's The Stone Angel, exploring colonial resistance in Wole Soyinka's "Telephonic Conversations", and critiquing concepts like Orientalism from Edward Said and the role of English language from Ngugi wa Thiango.

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Postcolonial Literature Exam Questions

This document outlines the exam for a Ph.D coursework in postcolonial literature. The exam consists of one part with 5 questions, and students must answer any 5 questions providing about 1200 words for each response. The questions cover analyzing themes in postcolonial works like pride and prejudice in Margaret Laurence's The Stone Angel, exploring colonial resistance in Wole Soyinka's "Telephonic Conversations", and critiquing concepts like Orientalism from Edward Said and the role of English language from Ngugi wa Thiango.

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17221244011016 Subject Code:18-4PEH14

SARAH TUCKER COLLEGE


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PH.D COURSE WORK EXAMINATIONS – JANUARY 2018


ENGLISH
Postcolonial Literature
(For those who joined July 2018 onwards)

Time: Three Hours Maximum Marks: 75

PART-A (5X15=75 Marks)


Answer Any five of the of the following questions each about 1200 words.

1. Bring out the plights of North American Indians in George Ryga’s Ecstasy of Rita Joe.

2. Write an Essay on the themes ‘Pride and Prejudice’ in Margaret Laurence’s The Stone

Angel.

3. Explain Derek Walcott’s “Ruins of the Great House” in a postcolonial perspective.

4. Give an account of Colonial resistance in Wole Soyinka’s “Telephonic Conversations”.

5. Edward Said’s Orientalism as a Critique of generalization of West - Attempt an Essay.

6. Ngugi wa Thiango’s Decolonizing the Mind as a critique of interpolation of English

Language – Explain.

7. Write an Essay on Bill Ashcraft’s Empire Writes Back.

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