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AZA 1061 CULTURE ESSAY 1
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AZA1061 FRENCH AND FRANCOPHONE STUDIES 1
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Name : Womba Njolomba
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Due Date : 25 April 2013
Instructions:
1. Don’t be tempted to answer a question before reading the whole poem.
2. Please answer all three of the following Essay questions
3. Questions must be answered in English even though you can include some quotes in French.
Questions:
French-speaking Literature is to owe its originality and its authenticity, and its durable contribution to Negritude movement as it returns to tribal origins or its African roots as a way of ‘Thinking Black’as suggested in Legitime Defence in 1932 created by Etienne Lero who excluded all and any compromise with Latin cultures.
* 1. Read the poem A ma mère ‘To my mother’ and show in which ways Camara Laye ‘s treatment of images in this poem could be regarded as fundamentally African. (200 words)
* 2. What is your response to Négritude where the ‘Black Woman’ is a central figure while the woman, as people argue, did not occupy a central place in society as it is even today? (200 words)
* 3. Cesaire's disciple Frantz Fanon dismissed the Négritude movement as too simplistic, a limiting philosophy although he was not entirely against it. Can you elaborate on this? (200 words)
ANSWERS
1. Camara Laye’s treatment of images in this poem is fundamentally African in that he mentions in one of his opening lines “O Dâman, O mother, who carried me on your back, who nursed me”. This act of carrying infants on the back is fundamentally African in nature as African women mostly put children in...
AZA 1061 CULTURE ESSAY 1
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AZA1061 FRENCH AND FRANCOPHONE STUDIES 1
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Name : Womba Njolomba
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Due Date : 25 April 2013
Instructions:
1. Don’t be tempted to answer a question before reading the whole poem.
2. Please answer all three of the following Essay questions
3. Questions must be answered in English even though you can include some quotes in French.
Questions:
French-speaking Literature is to owe its originality and its authenticity, and its durable contribution to Negritude movement as it returns to tribal origins or its African roots as a way of ‘Thinking Black’as suggested in Legitime Defence in 1932 created by Etienne Lero who excluded all and any compromise with Latin cultures.
* 1. Read the poem A ma mère ‘To my mother’ and show in which ways Camara Laye ‘s treatment of images in this poem could be regarded as fundamentally African. (200 words)
* 2. What is your response to Négritude where the ‘Black Woman’ is a central figure while the woman, as people argue, did not occupy a central place in society as it is even today? (200 words)
* 3. Cesaire's disciple Frantz Fanon dismissed the Négritude movement as too simplistic, a limiting philosophy although he was not entirely against it. Can you elaborate on this? (200 words)
ANSWERS
1. Camara Laye’s treatment of images in this poem is fundamentally African in that he mentions in one of his opening lines “O Dâman, O mother, who carried me on your back, who nursed me”. This act of carrying infants on the back is fundamentally African in nature as African women mostly put children in...