PART A: TEXT COMMENTARY

Comment on the following text. Identify the text and locate the fragment. Explain who
the narrator is, and comment upon the most relevant features of the text using the
postcolonial theories which you have studied.

'Now as you know, as I have told you, I am sometimes blessed with the talent to touch
the sick and heal the individual problems without even knowing what they are. I have
some powers which, now that I think of it, were likely to come down from Old Man
Pillager. And then there is the newfound fact of insight I inherited from Lulu, as well as
the familiar teachings of Grandma Kashpaw on visioning what comes to pass within a
lump of tinfoil.
It was all these connecting threads of power, you see, that gave me the flash of
vision when I was knocked in the skull by Ira's favorite brand.

No concrete shitbarn prison's built that can hold a Chippewa, I thought. And I realized
instantly that was a direct, locally known quote of my father, Gerry Nanapush, famous
politicking hero, dangerous armed criminal, judo expert, escape artist, charismatic
member of the American Indian Movement, and smoker of many pipes of kinnikinnick
in the most radical groups. That was... Dad".
p. 309 (162)

This fragment belongs to Louis Erdrich novel Love Medicine. The person who is talking
in this excerpt is Lipsha Morrisey, who narrates in first person his encounter with his
half-brother King Kashpaw and his wife, Lynette, although he does not know yet that
they are brothers.

PART B:

Choose TWO out of the three following topics and write coherent essays on
them:

l - Explore the role played by frontiers and borders in Waiting for the Barbarians.
2- How does The Buddha of Suburbia represent the state of the nation'?
Substantiate your answer with examples taken from the novel.
3- Examine the notion of negritude as reflected in Things Fall Apart and Wide
Sargasso Sea.