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Caribbean Prose Question Paper

Caribbean Prose

Course:Bachelor Of Arts In Literature

Institution: Kenyatta University question papers

Exam Year:2007

KENYA TTA UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS 2007/2008
FIRST SEMESTER EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF
EDUCATION AND BACHELOR OF ARTS
ALT 404:
CARIBBEAN PROSE
DATE: Wednesday, 28th November, 2007
TIME: 8.00 a.m. - 10.00 a.m.
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INSTRUCTIONS: Answer Question ONE and two other questions. Avoid repetition
of material across questions.
1.
Present an overview of the ways in which the themes of emigration and race are treated in the texts you have studied and discuss the relation of these themes to the social and historical setting of the novels. Then focus closely on one novel to elucidate your arguments.
2.
Rejection! Contempt! Sympathy! - Which of these words capture Naipaul's projection of life in an urban street in post-war Trinidad in Miguel Street? How would you relate these portrayals to the portrayal of urban life in any example(s) of African fiction?
3.
Choose any novel that can be defined as a bildungsroman and examine the portrayal of the main character in relation to the wider world.
4.
Evocative: Discuss the degree to which you might describe Vie Reid's rendition of the Kenyan freedom struggle in the novel, The Leopard. Incorporate character portrayal, incident, and setting in your discussion.
5.
Examine the complexities of the colonial situation and of change an George Lamming explores them in In the Castle of my Skin. What interest might this novel hold for Kenyans?
6.
Alienatin! Exile! Nostalgia! Return! Consider which ofthese or other themes which you have seen recur in your reading of Caribbean prose fiction are most prominent in Homestretch. What does this novel add to your reading experience on these themes.
7.
Write a critical essay on Breadth, Eyes, Memory. In this reader-response essay, remember to have a clear thesis that is carefully developed. Give your essay a title.

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