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ENGL 232: West African Fiction /
Midterm Exam
Name: ______________________________________
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I. Identification / Matching (20 points)
Put the letter of the correct match in the blank space next to its corresponding answer.
1. Kirsten Holst Petersen ____
2. Liz Gunner ____
3. R.E.G. Armattoe ____
4. Decolonising The Mind ____
5. Start of European “Age of Exploration” that maps Atlantic route to West Africa ____
6. Ibram X. Kendi ____
7. Flora Nwapa ____
8. Columbus sails the ocean blue ____
9. “First Things First” ____
10. “Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky” ____
A. 1418
B. Author of “First Things First”
C. Author of Efuru
D. Discusses issues concerning Feminist approaches to African literature
E. Story that demonstrates West African fiction’s oral tradition
F. Discusses the politics of language and its relationship to African literature
G. Author whose work discusses the relationship between segregationists, assimilationists, and anti-racists
H. Author of “Africa and Orality”
I. 1492
J. “Pioneer Poet” who wrote “A Little Child”
II. Definitions (30 points)
Give a brief definition for
SIX
of the below terms / concepts. If you answer more than six, only the first six answers you provide will be graded.
1. African Diaspora
2. Assimilationist
3. Segregationist
4. Intersectionality
5. Matrix of Domination
6. Anti-Racist
7. Post-Colonial
8. Oral Tradition
III. Short Answers (50 points)
Answer
FIVE
of the following questions as completely as you can by including whatever pertinent information you can think of to demonstrate your knowledge. Successful answers will usually be at least 4 – 6 sentences.
1. Diagram the triangular slave trade that produces the African Diaspora (just give the diagram).
2. In the introduction to Reversing Sail, Michael Gomez details six reasons it makes sense to study the African Diaspora as a unified experience for people of African descent across the globe. Discuss
TWO
of the reasons he gives.
3. Why is the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database an important resource for studying the African diaspora? Give one specific example of how it could be used as a resource in studying the historical legacies of the African slave trade.
4. The introduction to The Rienner Anthology illuminates several aspects of the West African oral tradition. Discuss
ONE
of the aspects detailed in the introduction and demonstrate how it applies to understanding
ONE
of the readings on pages 36-43 and 89-94 of the anthology.
5. The introduction to The Rienner Anthology illuminates several aspects of West African fiction written during the colonial period (1885-1956). Detail a cultural parallel that can be drawn between the function West African literature written during this period serves in Africa and the function African American literature serves in the US in the period immediately following the emancipation of slaves in 1865.
6. Describe the segregationists, assimilationists, and anti-racists sides of the debate about racial disparity in America. Discuss how
ONE
of these approaches to understanding racial disparity can be applied to a post-colonial analysis of West African fiction.
7. Use the ideas discussed in
ONE
assigned essay from either African Literature or Post-Colonial Studies to briefly analyze
ONE
assigned poem or story.
