Dibrugarh University| B.A - (CBCS)| ENGLISH - (Partition Literature) - (Honours and Non Honours) (DSE - 3)| Question Paper - (June/ July) - 2022| 6th Semester
6 SEM
TDC DSE ENG (CBCS) 3 (H/NH)
2022
(JUNE/
JULY)
ENGLISH
(Discipline
Specific Elective)
(For
Honours and Non-Honours)
Paper:
DSE - 3
(Partition
Literature)
Full
Marks: 80
Pass
Marks: 32
Time:
3 hours
The
figures in the margin indicate full marks for the questions
UNIT - I
1. Answer any one of the following questions: 15
(a) Examine how Intizar Hussain’s
Basti captures the protagonist Zakir's intense feeling of nostalgia and
displacement in the backdrop of the Partition.
(b) Elucidate with examples, the motif
of strife and loss as it recurs through Intizar Hussain's Basti.
(c) Attempt a critical understanding
of the narrative technique of Intizar Hussain's Basti with special reference to
the significance of memory as implicit in the text.
2.
Write a short note on any one of the following: 5
(a) Metaphorical significance of the
character of Sabirah
(b) Indian mythology as a literary
device in Basti
(c) Zakir's disillusionment with the
'new nation'
UNIT - II
3.
Answer any one of the following questions: 15
(a) Examine Amitav Ghosh's The Shadow
Lines as an exploration into issues of national borders and 'partitioning
history' in the specific case of India.
(b) Elucidate on the contextual
significance of the major symbols in Amitav Ghosh's The Shadow Lines.
(c) Attempt an explanation of the
historical events as they inform into the text of Amitav Ghosh's The Shadow
Lines.
4.
Write a short note on any one of the following: 5
(a) Character sketch of either Tha'mma
or lia
(b) Theme of Partition in The Shadow
Lines
UNIT - III
5.
Answer any one of the following questions: 15
(a) Analyze critically the metaphorical
significance of the 'House' in Dibyendu Palit's Alam's Own House. How does the
writer bring out the pain of 'exile' and 'belonging' in the story?
(b) Can you read Manik Bandopadhyay's
The Final Solution as a story that rejects gendered roles in the backdrop of
the Partition? Elucidate.
(c) Attempt a critique of the
representation of the 'madhouse' in Toba Tek Singh as symbolic of a microcosm
of nation at large
Or
Do you consider Lalithambika
Anthajanam's A Leaf in the Storm as a story of violence, survival and recovery?
Explain with examples from the text.
6.
Attempt a short analysis of any one of the following, with reference to your
prescribed texts: 5
(a) The violated female body in the
Partition
(b) Trope of madness in Partition
Literature
(c) Homelessness and exile
UNIT -IV
7.
Answer any one of the following questions: 15
(a) Identify and elucidate the note of
optimism in Faiz Ahmad Faiz's For Your Lanes, My Country. Do you consider the
poem to be too idealistic given the grave circumstances of the Partition?
(b) Discuss how Jibanananda Das's
poem, I shall Return to This Bengal records the loss of a land recreated
through a complex set of imagery.
(c) "There are some more
partitions to be done that partition was only the first one"
In the light of the quoted lines,
explain how partition is a continuous process in the subcontinent.
8.
Explain, with reference to the context, any one of the following: 5
(a) For Love of Bengal's rivers, fields,
crops, I'll come this way
To this sad green shore of Bengal,
drenched by the Jalangi's waves.
(b) This is how people fight
oppression, there ritual isn't new, nor are my ways new. This is how we always grew
flowers in fire, their defeat isn't new, our victory isn't new.
(c) I've to locate that mad fellow
Who used to speak up from a branch
high above:
"He's god-
He alone has to decide-whose village
to whose side."
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