In each answer, you should refer closely to the arguments advanced in at least TWO relevant works studied.

1. "Everywhere I go, a poet has been there before me" (Freud).  Discuss the relationship between Psychoanalysis and literature.

2. Compare the Freudian perspective on literature with the Jungian.

3. Discuss the impact of Psychoanalysis on Postcolonial theory.

4. Discuss the meaning of TWO of the following terms:

• Phenomenology
• Existentialism
• Hermeneutics.

5. "Reader-Response criticism is synonymous with the names Poulet, Jauss, Iser, and the like." Do you agree?

6. What do you understand by the term ‘Black Existentialism’?

In each answer, you should refer closely to the arguments advanced by the theorists in question.

Do not repeat substantially the same material in both answers.

1. The schools of thought studied in this course all share what Paul Ricoeur terms a ‘hermeneutics of suspicion.’ Referring closely to the views of ONE Psychoanalytic and ONE Phenomenological/Existentialist/Hermeneutical theorist, say whether or not you agree with this statement.

2. "Though we sometimes think of it as a single, unified phenomenon, the truth is that there are in fact different kinds of Postcolonial Theory." Discuss with reference to the views of ONE Psychoanalytic and ONE Phenomenological/Existentialist/Hermeneutical theorist studied this semester.

3. Would you agree that Jungian Analytic Psychology is a "subset" of Freudian Psychoanalysis? Answer by comparing the views of Freud and Jung on the nature of the psyche and literature.

4. Fanon once said that Marxism must be "stretched" if it is to be applicable to the colonial context. Is the same true of Psychoanalysis? Answer with reference to the views of TWO of the following theorists:

5. Explain TWO of the following terms by referring closely in each case to the views of ONE relevant theorist:

6. Discuss the phenomenological, existentialist and/or hermeneutical dimensions of the work of TWO Postcolonial theorists studied in this module.

Answer TWO (2) questions.  In each response, you should refer closely to those essay(s) by the theorists in question which you have studied this semester.

1.    Compare Freud’s model of the psyche with Jung’s.

2.    What light does Freud’s comments on the ‘dream-work’ in The Interpretation of Dreams shed on his views on literature in either "Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming" or "The Uncanny"?

3.    What does Bloom mean when he speaks of the "psychology of belatedness which necessarily afflicts all literary creation"? How, according to Bloom, does this notion help us to understand the emergence of Post-colonial literatures?

4.    Jung maintains that the literary work has its main source not in the "personal unconscious of the poet, but in a sphere of unconscious mythology whose primordial images are the common heritage of mankind . . . the collective unconscious" (80). Discuss.

5.    In what ways are Frye’s views on literature similar to Jung’s and in what way are they different?

6.    "There is no reason to be surprised when an Antillean . . . relives the same fantasies as a European. It is because the Antillean partakes of the same collective unconscious as the European" (Fanon).  In his effort to grasp the ‘psychopathology of the negro,’ why does Fanon prefer to engage with Jungian analytical psychology over Freudian psychoanalysis?

1.    Examine Elaine Showalter’s notions of feminist critique and gynocriticism from a Marxist feminist perspective.

2.    To what extent would you agree that Frantz Fanon offers a ‘misreading’ of Marx’s Base/Superstructure model?

3.    Elaborate on Amuta’s presentation of six (6) categories for the study of African literature.

5.    With reference to Walter Benjamin’s "The Author as Producer," discuss the implications of the writer’s awareness of his/her position in the process of production.

6.    Analyze Gramsci’s notion of hegemony with reference to a Marxist model of society.

1.    Why does Sartre argue that the "error of realism has been to believe that the real reveals itself to contemplation, and that consequently one could draw an impartial picture of it"?

2.    Compare the views of Hirsch and Iser on the nature and process of interpretation.

3.    In what ways is Jauss’ model of literary history "radically different" from traditional views? Answer by outlining his four theses.

4.    What, according to De Beauvoir, is a woman?

5.    In the process of reading a woman’s text, Schweickart argues, the feminist reader "encounters . . . the ‘heart and mind’ of another woman." In what ways are Schweickart’s views similar to and different from Poulet’s?

6.    What light does the "Hegelian dialectic," according to Fanon, shed on the predicament of the "Antillean negro"?

7.    Discuss JanMohamed’s view that the "manichean allegory" is the "central trope" of the "colonialist economy of representation."