Tuesday, 10 October 2017

                  ASSIGNMENT

                FIVE APPROACHES

     ARCHETYPAL APPROACH – Come Back to  the Raft Ag’in, Huck Honey


                                                          BY

                                       J.HAMIN LUDGER
                      I.M.A English Literature [Aided]


                              FACTUALS

1.Who is the author of the essay, “Come Back to the Raft Ag’in Huck Honey!”?
                   
                          Ans: Leslie Fielder
     
2.----------- and ---------- are the stock literary themes of primary concern in literature during the period of the exploration of responsibility and failure.

                           Ans: Negro and homosexual
     
3.Define myth.

                            Ans: Myth is a message from ourselves to ourselves, a secret language which enables us to treat inner as if outer event.
   
3.What are the two positions that the  White Americans made a choice?

                          Ans: institutionalized discrepancy and formulating new ideologies.
     
4.What are the stopgap devices which used to evade the final choices?
                                     Ans: the special night clubs and the “queer” café.

5.How did the Negroes was expected in the earlier minstrel show?
                                      Ans: In an earlier minstrel show, a Negro performer was expected to put   on the formalized mask of blackness with grease paint and burnt cork.

6.Homosexual passion contradicts with the national myth of -----------------.
                             Ans: masculine love.
7.What is the myth of America?
                      Ans: boyhood

8.Name the two most popular American books that were found illustrated on the children’s library?
                                Ans: Moby Dick and Huckleberry Finn

9.The child’s version of ------------ would seem a farfetched joke, if it were a part of our common experience.
                            Ans: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ‘ The Scarlet Letter’.

10.Who escapes the classification under the writers of juvenile classics?
                            Ans: Henry James.

11.What are the other American novels that mentioned in this essay?
                   Ans: Cooper’s ‘The Leathestocking Tales’, Dana’s ‘Two Years        Before the Mast’, a good deal of Stephen Crane’s book and Ernest Hemingway’s  novels.

12.What do all these books have in common?
          Ans: They accept the chaste male love as the ultimate emotional experience.

13.Whites were not able to accept the ------------.
                              Ans: blacks

14.In this essay, Fielder deals only with -----------------                            Ans: homosexuality

15.What were the feelings of Fiedler about the homosexual relationsh.                                         Ans: Though their relationships are physical, Fiedler feels that    they are innocent. He also says that it is a kind of childlike ignorance.

16.Who is considered as taboo?                           Ans: Blackmen are considered as taboo.

17.The existence of open homosexuality in America creates a threat of ---------------                            Ans: the compromise of American Sentimentalism

18.In the mentioned American novels ---------------- is found
                      Ans: a homosexual attraction

19. Match the following:
Dana             -  i. Nigger Jim
Melville         - ii. Chingachook
Cooper           - iii. Kanaka
 Twain            - iv Queequeq
                Ans:    a-iii,   b-iv,   c-ii,    d-i

20.What was the unexpected thing that both Negroes and homosexuals talk about?
                                                    Ans:contradictory national myth


21.In American culture ----------- is something common.
                                                            Ans:homosexual

22.In American life, there is ------------------.
                                                  Ans:regressiveness

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