Final exam
Please discuss at length the following questions and prompts. Be sure to type and double space your answers on a separate sheet of paper. Be sure to include direct quotations with correct MLA documentation. The documentation is 50% of the answer. Your final is due on Tuesday May 16, 2017 between 8 and 9:50 a.m., which is the time of your final exam.
- Using your notes from the introduction to Post-Colonial Theory and Literature, explain West’s role as the center during colonization, the concept of the other and the subaltern.
- Things Fall Apart is a post-colonial text which is characterized as a “write back†explain what is meant by a ‘write back†and discuss why writers such as Chinua Achebe felt the need to write their own stories.
- 3In Things Fall Apart, discuss how Ikemefuna can be considered a Christ Figure.
- Anna and the King is a movie that was discussed in tandem with Things Fall Apart. During the anniversary scene Mycroft Kincaid attacks King Mongkut’s wives and concubine’s beliefs by calling them superstitions. How does the King counter Kincaid’s attack?
- In Fences, explain how Troy Maxson’ and Rose Maxson’s marriage is a marriage of convenience or passion? (Direct Quotations and pagenumbers are needed).
- In The Narrative of Frederick Douglass explain this phrase “For it’s almost an unpardonable sin to teach a slave to read in this Christian country.†Discuss the significance of the word “Christian,†and how it relates to Olaudah Equiano and Harriet Jacobs. (Direct Quotations and page numbers needed)
- 7Discuss the conversion of Mistress Hugh. How did “slavery prove as injurious to her as it did me?†(Direct Quotations and page numbers needed)
- In “The Ethics of Jim Crow,†discuss how you feel that it is relevant to our political discussions today. (Direct Quotations and page numbers are needed)
Bonus “The Party†by Paul Laurence Dunbar takes place during the 18th century. What specific passage confirms the time period?
i have attached the full text of things fall apart and the narrative of frederick douglass
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