follow this steps to solve TMA 3
You should adequately cover all aspects of this question, and any missing element would rule out the “A” grade.
Remember, you only have an excerpt in your Anthology. If you were to read the larger **** and work from other sections. If this were done, you would need to supply copies of the parts used.
- The thesis of this paper is “How do the *** writers ‘overcome’ their colonial legacy – or arguably, how do they overcome their colonial legacy?”
- In the critical/theoretical aspect of this TMA, you should choose a ‘theme’ and work through that with appropriate ****s, or choose one (or ***) theoretical ****s and use them to work through the literary readings.
- You could structure your papers as compare/contrast, thematically, or as a discussion of one literary **** followed by a discussion of the other literary ****.
- For many of you, Naipaul is one of the most controversial writers you read in this course. His biting criticism of post-independence societies (what your book calls “corrosive” p. 6) set him apart in tone and ******* from many other postcolonial authors. Perhaps more telling is his “lack of allegiance to the reconstruction of cultural values that engages most of the ‘new writers” (p. 6) and their allegiance to commitment. Here you could bring in a discussion of Satre/existentialism.
- You could consider Naipaul through the lens of Fish’s “interpretive communities” – Why do the British love him so, while the rest of us are much more alienated by his writings.
- You need to read the major difference between the *** writers as summed up on p. 50.
Walcott’s Poetry: There is a sense of joy in discovering a new world of literature (p. 5) / For Another Life (his autobiographical poem). You might consider (pp. 30-44)
- The idea of a Creole literature
- Walcott’s “otherness” within his own cultural setting (Said might be useful here, as well as de Beauvoir)
- The wide range of references, many European, this places Walcott’s poem within a con**** of English / European literature, as well as world literature or literature written in English
- The frustration and disillusionment felt by third world intellectuals (see p. 34, also referenced is Naipaul’s The Mimic Men)
- The instability of the **** (p. 36) – also true of Naipaul, think of the unusual structure of this ‘novel’
- The authority in the **** – said on Block 5 **** to come from an English tradition – this could be a great starting point for a TMA
- Role of history
- Nostalgia (esp. for the heyday of the British Empire)
- Compared perhaps to the “squalor and reek” or present day St. Lucia (p. 42) – here is another point of comparison with Naipaul
- Walcott as “true patriot” (pp. 43-44)
Naipaul: You might consider (pp. 48-75)
Prologue/Epilogue
- A comparison/consideration of the Prologue and the Epilogue, the new multicultural, globalized society portrayed in the Prologue, the British character is the “bum” – at least how he is seen by the narrator of this story – the decline of the British Empire – the Epilogue suggests the fall of the adolescent American Empire and the rise of the (somewhat ridiculous) Chinese (in the form of circus acrobats)
- Both pieces suggest the (inherent?) cruelty of humanity, that there will always be victims struggling at the hands of those seeking power
- That all peoples (Europeans, Arabs, etc) are capable of ugly despicable acts toward one another – perhaps it is the role (of colonizer) that corrupts, rather than the people themselves who are corrupted
- The outsider/narrator – a cosmopolitan figure? The hope for the future?
“One out of Many”
- Immigration as one way to overcome colonialism, especially immigration to another country (US not UK) – but then look at the way the first paragraph ends – “But”
- An interesting critique of racism and what Americans would call “colorism” – racism within communities of peoples of color – in England the Indian character would be considered “Black” – yet in America he feels quite comfortable speaking in an openly racist manner about African Americans – is this learned racism (from being colonized), part of his own culture, part of the human condition?
- You may want to consider how gender plays into postcolonial writing, many postcolonial writers have patriarchal tendencies, – a simple question to consider would be “how are women portrayed in Naipaul’s work?”
“Tell Me Who to Kill”
- There is something almost biblical about this story, Cain and Abel?
- Ends with a reference to a Hitchcock movie
- Shows the struggles of immigrants, but none of the people are especially sympathetic
- Predicaments of colonial moving to metropolitan center
“In a Free State”
- The title piece, about the petty struggles of local rulers after the end of colonial rule
- Is both a stab at colonial rule, which seems to have no/little lasting effect, and also a criticism of local politics/society which seem destined to return to a kind of primitive tribalism
- What does the title mean? Political? Personal?
- Who are and what are we now that we live in “a free state”? Do we really or can we ever live in a free state?
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