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African-American Prose Question Paper

African-American Prose

Course:Bachelor Of Arts In Literature

Institution: Kenyatta University question papers

Exam Year:2007

KENYATTA UNIVERSITY
INSTITUTE OF OPEN LEARNING
UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS 2006/2007
EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF EDUCATION AND
BACHELOR OF ARTS
ALT 305: AFRICAN-AMERICAN
PROSE
DATE: Monday rz" February, 2007
TIME: 10.30 a.m. -12.30 p.m.
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INSTRUCTIONS
Answer any THREE questions.
1.
Either
(a)
"He has to kill before he finds reasons to live He has to die before he can feel alive .... ". What is your understanding ofthis statement in the context of Native Son by Richard Wright.
Or
(b)
In his introduction to Native Son Wright claims he has tried to make Bigger Thomas a living personality and at the same time a symbol of all the larger things he felt and saw in him. With insights from the introduction and detailed reference to the novel, evaluate the success with which he achieves this aim.
2.
For Ralph Ellison's narrator, the dramatization of invisibility is also a process of self- discovery". Discuss with reference to the narrator's progress in Invisible Man.
3.
"I don't write to God no more, I write to you". Explain the circumstances that made Celie make the above statement highlighting her experience of God in The Color by Alice Walker.
4.
Either
(a)
Discuss the meaning and significance ofthe title of Baldwin's novel Go Tell it on the MOlmtain.
Or
(b)
Discuss Baldwin's attitude to his childhood as revealed in Go Tell it on the Mountain.
5.
All African American writers have to confront history in their art. How does history influence the writing of anyone author studied in this unit.

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