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Afro-American Drama And Poetry Question Paper

Afro-American Drama And Poetry 

Course:Bachelor Of Arts In Literature

Institution: Kenyatta University question papers

Exam Year:2007



KENYATTA UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS 2006/2007
FIRST SEMESTER EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF
ARTS AND BACHELOR OF EDUCATION
AL T 306: AFRO-AMERICAN DRAMA AND POETRY
DATE: FRIDAY, 9TH FEBRUARY 2007
TIME: 8.00 A.M. -10.00 A.M.
INSTRUCTIONS:
Answer question ONE and TWO other questions.
1.
COMPULSORY (30 marks)
"African American Literature presents a positive view of the American Dream."
Briefly discuss this statement with illustrations from:
a)
One character in Lorraine Hansberry's
A Raisin in the Sun
(15 marks)
b)
The Poetry of Claude McKay and Langston Hughes
(15 marks)
2.
"African American poetry of the 1960's served too much of the
political agenda to the detriment of the literariness of poetry."
Discuss with illustrations from poems of two writers.
(15 marks)
3.
Examine one form of style that James Baldwin uses to present the
moral lesson in The Amen Corner.
(15 marks)
4.
Briefly discuss the view that the history of the piano in August Wilson's
The Piano Lesson is the history of the African American person in the
U.S.A.
(15 marks)
5.
What solutions to racism does Amiri Baraka's Dutchman offer?
(15 marks)
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