M.A English "Indian Writing in Translation" Question Paper-2 of 4th Semester, all semesters Question Paper Download.

MA English 4th Semester
Indian Writing in Translation
Paper: II

Time Allowed: Three Hours] [Maximum Marks: 80

Note: - 

(1) Attempt all the questions. 

(2) The questions carry marks as indicated.

I. Write short notes (200 words each) on any three of the following: 

(i) Indian perspectives on translation. 

(ii) Nativism in the context of Indian writing in translation.

(iii) Multiple significations of Dalit “identify” with special reference to Dalit literature. 

(iv) Women writing in India: a Satyagraha (non-violent protest) against oppression. 

(v) Condition of contemporary Indian drama in translation. 

(vi) Chhayavada in literature in Hindi.

UNIT-I 

II. Discuss the following comment colled from Six Acres and a Third in the context of mimicry and satire that the writer uses to expose the impact of colonialism on a feudal rural Oriya society:" Ask a new babu his grandfather's name and he will hem and haw, but the names of the ancestors of England's Charles the Third will readily roll off his tongue. To be considered a scholar, it is necessary to have read about the English or the French; there is no point in learning about oneself or one's neighbour".

OR 

Discuss how Six Acres and a Third is marked by stock realism, grim humour and sympathy for the poor.

UNIT-II 

III. Critically examine Premchand's The Shroud (Kafan) as an attack on casteism, feudalism, and social exclusion in the light of the following textual quotation: "If she doesn't go to heaven then will those big fat people go who rob the poor with both hands and swim in the Ganges and offer holy water in the temples to wash away their, sins".

OR

Discuss how Mahasweta Devi, through Draupadi represents the heartless exploitation of the poor tribals and the agency of women to protest against all forms of oppression.

OR 

Discuss Urmil Pawan's A Childhood Tale from the perspective of a Dalit woman.

UNIT—III 

IV. Discuss Tughlaq as a historical play that foregrounds the interplay of inordinate ambition, religious fanaticism, corruption, and lack of practical realism.

OR 

Discuss the significance of "disguise" in the play Tuglaq.

UNIT-IV 

V. Discuss Remembering Saroj as a critique of the contemporary culture and society.

OR 

Critically examine how Faiz's poems prescribed for you evoke the aesthetic experience of compassion or pathos (Karaua rasa).

OR 

Critically examine how Namdeo Dhasal's poems prescribed for you foreground different facets of dalit consciousness and ask for the radical socio-cultural transformation.