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Caribbean Literature(Litt 421) Question Paper

Caribbean Literature(Litt 421)

Course:Education

Institution: Kenya Methodist University question papers

Exam Year:2013

TIME : 2 HOURS

Instructions:
Answer three questions
Question One
Discuss George Lamming’s treatment of the theme of motherhood in In the Castle of My Skin (20 marks)

Question Two
With reference to Aime Cesaire’s Return to My Native Land, discuss the stylistic devices the writer uses to convey the message. (20 marks)

Question Three
Using relevant examples, discuss the use of irony in V.S. Naipaul’s novel A House for Mr. Biswas. (20 marks)

Question Four
Analyze the poem "If We Must Die" by Claude Mckay in terms of style.
(20 marks)
If We Must Die by Claude McKay
If we must die, let it not be like hogs
Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot,
While round us bark the mad hungry dogs,
Making their mock at out 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 we defy
Shall be constracused to honor 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’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack,
Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!

Question Five
Discuss the major issues addressed by the poet in Claude McKay’s Poem "Outcast."
Outcast by Claude Mckay
For the dim regions whence my fathers came
My spirits, bondaged by the body, longs.
Words felt, but never heard, my lips would frame;
My soul would sing forgotten jungle songs.
I would go back to darkness and to peace,
But the great western world holds me in fee,
And I may never hope for full release
While to its alien gods I bend my knee.
Something in me is lost, forever lost,
Some vital thing has gone out of my heart,
And I must walk the way of life a ghost
Among the sons of earth, a thing a part.
For I was born, far from my native clime,
Under the white man’s menace, out of time.

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