Long Test Test in Afro Asian Lite Literature rature African Literature MR. CEDRIC M. RAYLA ENGLISH INSTRUCTOR
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Fill in the blank : Supply each blank with the correct terminology/ies and name/s. Strictly no erasures. African Poetry a. Paris in the Snow swings swings between between assimilati assimilation on of French, European European culture culture or negritude, intensified intensified by the poet’s catholic piety. b. Totem by Leopold Senghor shows the eternal linkage of the living with the dead. c. Letters to Martha by b y Dennis rutus is the poet’s most famous collection that speaks of the humiliation, the despondency, the indignity of prison life. d. Train !ourney by Dennis rutus reflects the poet’s social commitment, as he reacts to the poverty around him amidst material progress especially and acutely felt by the innocen t victims, the children. e. Africa by Da"id Diop is a poem that achieves its impact by a series of climactic sentences and rhetorical uestions. #o"els !. The $ouseboy by Ferdinand %yono points out the disillusionment of "oundi, a boy who leaves his parents maltreatment to enlist his services services as an acolyte to a foreign missionary. missionary. #. Things Fall Apart by &hinua Achebe depicts a vivid picture of $frica before the coloni%ation by the &ritish. "he title is an epigraph from 'eats’ "he Second (oming: )things fall apart/the center cannot hold/ mere anarchy is loosed upon the world. *. #o Longer at 'ase by &hinua Achebe is a seuel seuel to to "hings "hings Fall Fall $part $part and and the title title of of which which is alluded to Elliot’s "he +ourney of the agi: )-e returned to our places, these kingdoms,/ &ut no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation.’ . The Poor &hrist of ombay by Mongo eti begins en medias res and eposes the inhumanity of colonialism. "he novel tells of Fr. 0rumont’s disillusionment after the discovery of o f the degradation of the native women betrothed, but forced to work like slaves in the sia. 1. The (i"er etween by !ames #gugi shows the clash of traditional values and contemporary ethics and mores. 2. $eirs to the Past by Driss &hraili is an allegorical, allegorical, parable3like novel. $fter !2 years years of absence, the anti3hero 0riss Ferdi returns to orocco for his father’s funeral. "he Signeur leaves his legacy via a tape recorder in which he tells the family members his last will and testament. 4. A Few Days and Few #ights by Mbella Sonne Dipoko deals with racial pre5udice. 6n the novel originally written in French, a (ameroonian scholar studying in France is torn between the love of a Swedish girl and a 7arisienne show father owns a business establishment in $frica. $frica. 8. The )nterpreters by b y *ole Soyinka is about a group of young intellectuals who function as artists in their talks with one another as they try to place themselves in the contet of the world about them. Ma+or *riters !. Leopold Sedar Senghor ,-/01 is a poet and statesman who was confounder of the 9egritude movement in $frican art and literature. is works include: Songs of Shadow, &lack ;fferings, a5or Elegies, 7oetical -ork. e became president of Senegal in !<2=. #. %kot P2itek ,-304-561 was born in >ganda during the &ritish domination and was embodied in a contrast of cultures. $mong his works are: Song of ?awino, Song of ;col, $frican @eligions and -estern -e stern Scholarship, @eligion of the (entral ?uo, orn of y ?ove. *. *ole *ole Soyinka Soyinka ,-371 is a 9igerian 7laywright, poet, novelist, and critic who was the first black $frican to be awarded the 9obel 7ri%e for ?iterature in !<82. $mong his works: plays3 $ 0ance of the Forests, "he ?ion and the +ewel, "he "rials of &rother +eroA novels B "he 6nterpreters, Season of $nomyA poems B 6danre and;ther 7oems, 7oems from 7rison, $ Shuttle in the (rypt, andela’s Earth and ;ther 7oems. . &hinua Achebe ,-301 is a prominent 6gbo novelist acclaimed for his unsentimental depictions of the social and psychological disorientation accompanying the imposition of -estern customs and values upon traditional $frican society. is particular concern was with emergent $frica at its moments of crisis. is works include, "hings Fall $part, $rrow of Cod, 9o ?onger at ease, $ an of the 7eople, $nthills of Savanah. 1. #adine 8ordimer ,-631 is a South $frican novelist and short story writer whose ma5or theme was eile and alienation. She received the 9obel 7ri%e for ?iterature in !<
2. essie $ead ,-394-5/1 described the contradictions and shortcomings of pre3 and postcolonial $frican society in morally didactic novels and stories. She suffered re5ection and alienation from an early age being born of an illegal union between her white mother and black father. er works include, -hen @ain (louds Cather, uestion of 7ower, "he (ollector of treasures, Serowe. 4. arbara :imenye ,-701 wrote twelve books on children’s stories known as the oses series which are now standard reading fare for $frican school children. $mong her works are: alasandra @evisited, "he Smugglers, "he money game.
which means literally )blackness,’ is the literary movement of the !=*=s3!<1=s that -. #egritude , began among French3speaking $frican and (aribbean writers living in 7aris as a protest against French colonial rule and the policy of assimilation. 6ts leading figure was 6. Leopold Sedar Senghor G!st president of the republic of Senegal in !<2=H, who along with $ime (esaire from artiniue and ?eo 0amas from French Cuina, began to eamine -estern values critically and to reassess $frican culture. "he movement largely faded in the early !<2=s when its political and cultural ob5ectives had been achieved in most $frican countries. "he basic ideas behind 9egritude include: T(;' %( FALS'< -rite true if the statement is false and write false if the statement is true. !. fIIIIIIIIIIII $fricans must look to their own cultural heritage to determine the values and traditions that are most useful in the modern world. #. fIIIIIIIIIIII(ommitted writers should use $frican sub5ect matter and poetic traditions and should ecite a desire for political freedom. *. fIIIIIIIIIIII9egritude itself encompasses the whole of $frican cultural, economic, social, and political values. . fIIIIIIIIIIII"he value and dignity of $frican traditions and peoples must be asserted 'ssay
!. 0istinguish the $frican literature from 6ndian, +apanese, and (hinese literatures. #. (hoose Four $frican writers and list down their * ma5or literary contributions in $frican ?iterature.
