Format- 2 essay type questions out of 7 (15+15).

1 reference to the context/locate and

annotate out of 4 (8) {only from detailed texts- Wollstonecraft, Foucault, Fanon, Spivak}.
3 short questions out of 7 (4+4+4).

Wollstonecraft- Vindication of the Rights of Women

Broad:

1. Why is Mary Wollstonecraft known as the mother of modern feminism? Discuss

the areas of inequality addressed in the text.
2. Critically comment on the rights of women that Wollstonecraft underscores in the
text.
3. What kind of education does Mary Wollstonecraft suggest for women in a
patriarchal society?

Explanation:

1. Dedication: “Independence has long... I were to live on a berren heath.”

2. Dedication: “Contending for rights of women ...influence general practice.”
3. Chapter-1: “Men in general...root them out.”

Short questions:

1. “Men and women vastly educated ...manner of the society they live in.”
2. Chapter-4: “The power of women ...Why the philosophical men
complain...fickle?”
3. Chapter-7: “I should be very anxious ...very improper.”
4. Chapter-8: “Women...casual hurt.”
Fanon: The Wretched of the Earth (a.Concerning Violence, b. Case Study- Series A,B)

Broad:

1. How does Fanon describe the dynamics of decolonizationin the text?

2. Briefly outline the role of violence in the liberation wars of the colonial territories?

Short and Explanation:

1. Case series A and B.

Said: Orientalism

Broad:

1. What, according to Said, is Orientalism?

Short Questions:

1. What is the location and position of Hazrat Mohammed in Dante’s Inferno?

2. Write a short note on Bibliotheque.
 Jung: Psychology and Literature

Broad:

1. “Collective Unconscious.”
2. What is, according to Jung, the definition of an artist?

Short questions:

1. Write a short note on “Persona”.

2. Write a short note on Jung’s conception of an artist.

Spivak: Can the Subaltern Speak?

Broad:

1. Basic tenets of Subaltern studies as reflected in Spivak’s essay Can the

Subaltern Speak?

Short question:

1. Write in brief Spivak’s critique of the classic Marxist approach of SSG.

Explanation:

1. Where does Spivak’s essay stand in relation to Orientalism on one hand and
third World Feminism on the other?
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Roland Barthes

1. Does Barthes’ “The Death of The Author” lead to the inevitable conclusion that
meaning of a text is inexhaustible? Explain critically. (15)

2. Intertextuality. (4)

Foucault

1. Discuss Foucault’s conception of the Author in “What is an Author?” (15)

2. Explain Foucault’s discussion of the “Author Function”. (8)

3. Elucidate “Ecriture”. (4)