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Clt 402: African-American Literature Question Paper
Clt 402: African-American Literature
Course:Bachelor Of Education (Arts)
Institution: South Eastern Kenya University question papers
Exam Year:2015
SOUTH EASTERN KENYA UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS 2015/2016
MAY-AUGUST 2016 (PRACTICUM) SEMESTER EXAMINATION FOR
THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF EDUCATION (ARTS)
CLT 402: AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE
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DATE: 16TH AUGUST, 2016 TIME: 8.30 -10.30 AM
Instructions: Answer only three questions. Question 1 is Compulsory (30 Marks). Choose any other two
questions, each carrying 20 marks.
Questions
1. (a) using illustrations from African American literature, discuss the characteristics that make
Afro-American writing unique (15 marks)
(b) “African American literature is protest literature”. Discuss. (10 Marks)
2. Evaluate how the African American woman writer writes about her womanhood. Use illustrations
from the works read in this course. (20 marks)
3. “The problem with the American society is that of race and class.” Discuss, drawing examples
from works studied. (20 marks)
4. A normal human reaction by an oppressed person against the oppressor is to hate him and all that
he represents. Booker T. Washington does the reverse; gets close to the White oppressor and uses
that to fight oppression. Discuss any five ways through which this helped the enslaved Afro-
American, using illustrations from any of the Afro-American texts studied. (20 marks)
5. Using Martin Luther King, Jrs’ speech “I Have a Dream”, explain any prominent symbols, metaphors
and images as used by the Afro-American writers. (20 Marks)
6.Discuss any five poetic devices of style used in the poems below by Langston Hughes and Claude
Mackay and their effectiveness in capturing the African American slave predicament. (20 Marks)
Appendices
The poetry
I, Too
I, too, sing America.
I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.
Tomorrow,
I’ll be at the table
When company comes.
Nobody’ll dare
Say to me,
“Eat in the kitchen,”
Then.
Besides,
They’ll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed—
I, too, am America.
By Langston Hughes
If we Must die
If we must die, let it not be like hogs
Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot,
While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs,
Making their mock at our accursed lot.
If we must die, O let us nobly die,
So that our precious blood may not be shed
In vain, then even the monsters that we defy
Shall be constrained to honour us though dead!
O kinsmen! We must meet the common foe!
Though far outnumbered, let us show us brave,
And for their thousand blows deal one death blow!
What though before us lies the open grave?
Like men, we will face the murderous, cowardly pack,
Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!
By Claude Mckay
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