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NLI521S - NAMIBIAN LITERATURE - 2ND OPP - JAN 2020 |
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NAMIBIA UNIVERSITY
OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
FACULTY OF HUMAN SCIENCES
DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATION
QUALIFICATION: BACHELOR OF ENGLISH
QUALIFICATION CODE: 07BAEN
LEVEL: 5
COURSE CODE: NLI521S
COURSE NAME: NAMIBIAN LITERATURE
SESSION:
JANUARY 2020
PAPER:
THEORY
DURATION:
3 HOURS
MARKS:
75
SECOND OPPORTUNITY/SUPPLEMENTARY EXAMINATION QUESTION PAPER
EXAMINER(S) | MRM. MHENE
MS W.M. CLOETE
MODERATOR: | MRA. BREWIS
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Answer THREE questions.
2. Write clearly and neatly.
3. Number the answers clearly.
THIS QUESTION PAPER CONSISTS OF 3 PAGES (including this front page)
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Question1 Prose: The Purple Violet of Oshaantu by Neshani Andreas
(25 marks)
The Purple Violet of Oshaantu by Neshani Andreas deals with issues that are of vital
importance to the position of women in Namibian society. It can therefore be regarded as a
feminist text. Examine the position of women under the traditional partriachial system in
force in the community in which Kauna lives and the different ways in which women in this
community oppose and overcome their oppression.
(600 words)
Question 2 Drama: The Show Isn’t Over Until ...by Vickson Nangula
(25 marks)
In the outer play there are five characters, the Director, and four actors, Karin, Judy, Simon
and Steve. The four actors play the parts of several characters within the inner play. Write
an essay defining the roles played by each actor.
(600 words)
Question 3 Autobiography: The Price of Freedom by Ellen Namhila
(25 marks)
“lam writing down my experience because writing this story is helping me to find a new
meaning in my life and to find ways to love people who hated me in the past and wanted to
destroy me or take my life away from me. | also want to tell my children, my friends, all
those who helped us, educated us and provided scholarships to us, fed and clothed us, that
their solidarity and support is remembered even in times of peace.”
Use the above quotation from Ellen Namhila’s autobiography The Price of Freedom, to
analyse the main themes of exile and homecoming in the text.
(600 words)
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Question4 Poetry: Selection from Namibian poems
(25 marks)
Analyse Hendrik Witbooi’s poem below by paying special attention to the themes and its
meaning.
(400 words
(Nama traditional)
Serpent in the grass: Nanseb
short-boned one: great eye:
guardian of the people and the land:
keen eye who discovers conspirators
Ssharp ear that hears where there is no sound:
deft one who caught the flies
that came over the water to sting us,
and who made those invader flies groan
The eye sees you as slow-paced
10fast-thinking one:
abundant teat whose milk flows without stopping:
protector of orphans:
waterhole and shade-tree for the homeless:
short-boned one: stump finger: deep-rooted shrub:
terror of conquerors-
rifle in your stump finger
on the back of the short-ear-
terror of the aggressor-
short-ear obeying stump finger:
20supreme among all in Khowese history:
round shoe whose tracks are all over:
stump-finger: short-boned one:
master of rifle and short-ear:
Nanseb, great father, deep-rooted shrub
LINE14. Stump finger: Witbooi had lost his right thumb in battle.
L/NE 17. Short-ear, horse