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LIT811S - LITERARY THEORY - 1ST OPP - JUNE 2025 |
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nAmlBIA UnlVERSITY
OF SCIEnCE Ano TECHnOLOGY
FACULTY OF COMMERCE, HUMAN SCIENCEAND EDUCATION
DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATION AND LANGUAGES
QUALIFICATION: BACHELOR OF ENGLISH AND LINGUISTICS (HONOURS)
QUALIFICATION CODE: 0SBAEN
LEVEL: 8
COURSE CODE: LIT811S
COURSE NAME: LITERARY THEORY
SESSION: JUNE 2025
PAPER: THEORY
DURATION: 3H00
MARKS: 100
EXAMINER(S)
FIRST OPPORTUNITY EXAMINATION
DR. JULIA INDONGO
MODERATOR: DR. A. SIMATAA
THIS PAPER CONSISTS OF 3 PAGES (Including this front page)
Answer all the questions.
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QUESTION 1
20 MARKS
Using literary texts of your choice, critically examine trauma and resilience literary theories.
QUESTION 2
20 MARKS
DiscussSigmund Freud's three components of personality, ID, EGO,and SUPEREGOI.nclude
what each element represents, how it functions, and provide an example.
QUESTION 3
25 MARKS
Define ecocriticism as an "earth-centered approach to literary studies," and as the study of
the relationship between literature and the physical environment.
Explain this with examples drawn from any of the texts you have studied in this course.
QUESTION 4
35 MARKS
Readthe excerpt above from Matigari by Ng0gTwaThiong'o and analyze it using Karl Marx's
theory of Marxism. Write an essay in which you discuss how class struggle, oppression, and
revolution portrayed in the characters' dialogue and experiences?
Scene 1: (Matigari confronts the factory owner).
"Tell me, who owns this house?"
"I do. I inherited it from my father," replied the man in a suit.
"And who built it?"
"Labourers."
"Exactly. And the land on which it stands?"
"Also inherited."
"Who made this wealth?" Matigari asked. "Who planted, weeded, and harvested the tea?
Who dug the roads? Who built the factory? Was it not the sweat and blood of the workers?
And yet you sit here, drinking tea, and calling yourself the owner!"
(NgugTwa Thiong'o, Matigari, Heinemann, 1987, p. 66-67)
Scene 2: (Matigari meets children living in a wrecked car).
"Where do you sleep?" Matigari asked.
"Here," said the girl, pointing to the wreck of a car.
"What about your parents?"
"We don't have any. We sleep here and share whatever we find."
"What do you eat?"
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"Sometimes rats. Sometimes nothing. They eat meat, we eat rats. They sleep in beds, we
sleep in wrecks. They ride cars, we walk barefoot. We have nothing, but they say this is
freedom."
Scene 3: (A student delivers a revolutionary speech to the crowd).
"Brothers and sisters! Open your eyes! The people are poor, landless, jobless. Their children
are on the streets, their wives suffer. The land is rich, the factories are there, but the wealth
goes to the few. You wait for change from the top-but the top is the problem! The people
must organize themselves and seize power. The only solution is revolution!"
Scene 4: (Matigari in prison with political prisoners).
"This is the country of truth turned into lies and lies turned into truth," said the man in the
cell. "Speak the truth, and you are called a liar. Defend the poor, and you are a criminal. Ask
for justice, and you are called a rebel. They say we have independence, but we are still
chained. What kind of freedom is this, where the people live in fear?"
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