Dibrugarh University| B.A| CBCS| English, Partition Literature| Question Paper - (May/ June) - 2023| 6th Semester
6 SEM TDC DSE ENG (CBCS) (H/NH)
2023
(May/June)
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) “Times
and places are scrambled inside me. Where am I going? In what time? In what
place? Every direction confused, every place disordered.”
In the light
of the above statement, comment on the narrative technique as employed in
Intizar Hussain’s Basti.
(b) Basti is
a novel about multiple partitions, yet it embodies an unpartitioned
consciousness. Do you agree? Give reasoned answer.
(c) Examine
how Intizar Hussain employs Basti to translate the partition trauma.
2. Write a short note on any one of the following: 5
(a)
Significance of the flood and the fire at the end of the novel, Basti
(b)
Significance of the character Sabirah
(c) Indian
mythology as a literary device in Basti
UNIT-II
3. Answer any one of the following questions: 15
(a) Attempt a
reading of Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines as a critique of nationalism.
(b) Attempt a
character analysis of Tridib as portrayed in Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines.
(c) Give an
idea of the historical events as they inform into the text of Amitav Ghosh’s
The Shadow Lines.
4. Write a note on any one of the following: 5
(a) Political
implications of the Mu-I-Mubarak incident in The Shadow Lines
(b)
Metaphorical significance of the upside-down house in The Shadow Lines
(c) Short
character sketch of either Nick Price or May Price
UNIT-III
5. Answer any one of the following questions: 15
(a) Examine
Dibyendu Palit’s Alam’s Own House as a memoir.
(b) Analyze
how women is the focus of enquiry, a subject and an agent of the narrative in
Manik Bandopadhyay’s The Final Solution.
(c) Make an
assessment of Sa’adat Hasan Manto’s Toba Tek Singh as a tale of trauma,
confusion and loss of identity for the inmates of the asylum.
(d) Examine
Lalithambika Antharjanam’s A Leaf in the Storm as a story of survival and
recuperation.
6. Attempt a short analysis of any one of the following, with
reference to your prescribed texts:
(a)
Colonialism, nationalism and the partition
(b) Female
body as a site of violence in the partition
(c) The
significance of space in partition literature
UNIT-IV
7. Answer any one of the following questions: 15
(a) Identify
and examine the note of irony as implicit in Faiz Ahmad Faiz’s poem, For Your
Lanes, My Country.
(b) Why do
you think the speaker of Jibanananda Das’ poem, I Shall Return to this Bengal
wish to return as an incarnation of nature to his birthplace Bengal? Elaborate.
(c) Examine
how Gulzar elaborates on the idea of partition as a continuous process in the
subcontinent in his poem, Toba Tek Singh.
8. Explain, with reference
to the context, any one of the following: 5
(a) I shall
return to this Bengal, to the Dhansiri’s bank:
Perhaps not
as a man, but mayna or fishing-kite;
(b) For the
many apologists of tyranny, it’s enough that a few of your dear friends have
turned into power-seekers, judges and plaintiffs.
(c) Slay that
“Bhuri”, none will come to claim her now
That girl who
grew one finger every twelve months,
Now shortens
one phalanx each year.
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