Loneliness is one of the key themes of
the novel. It is apparent from the beginning that Brenda is very lonely. In
what ways does Beryl Bainbridge portray the loneliness of other key
characters’, such as Freda and Rossi. The novel is
A) The Bottle Factory Outing is narrated
in the third person.
B) Every Man for Himself, 1996 novel
about the Titanic disaster,
C) The Lonely Londoners depicts ways
early West Indian immigrants found to endure in immediate post-war,
nationalist, Britain.
D) The Buddha of Serbia novel indicates
how second-generation migrants, who are often more psychically flexible, form
their identities differently to their immigrant parents. They negotiate ways of
being British via their heritage and immediate family, but also with peers, and
across various boundaries including those of class, gender, and culture
Ans:A
South
Asian American women writers:
South Asian American women writers are Talat Abbasi, Meena Alexander, Anita Rau
Badami, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Jhumpa Lahiri, Ameena Meer, Tahira Naqvi,
and Bapsi Sidhw
Vineeta
Vijayaraghavan
Motherland, by debut novelist Vineeta
Vijayaraghavan, tells the tale of a young Indian American girl who spends her
summer in Tamil Nadu. The correct statement is…..
A)The teenaged protagonist, Maya, is
sent by her parents to Tamil Nadu, to spend a summer with her mother's
relatives.
B) This trip is intended to remind Maya
of her roots and culture, and attempt to dissipate some of the undesirable
influences of Westernization.
C)Maya's grandmother who had brought
Maya up until she was four, reveals Maya' s own hidden past to her, assisting
her to understand and empathise with her mother.
D)When Maya' s grandmother has a stroke,
Maya's parents are amongst the family members gathered. Maya's grandmother dies
within two weeks, and after the cremation, life reverts back to its normal
rhythms, but Maya finds that she is left with a new-found confidence that she
carries a sense of home within her.
E)all
As:E
Chandani
Lokuge's
Chandani Lokuge's If the Moon Smiled, is
an example of a character whose personality, values, and behaviour, did not
alter or adjust at all to her new environment. This novel provides a valuable
study, tracing as it does, the life of its diasporic characters over several
decades.
A) Manthri, a young Sinhalese, Buddhist
Sri Lankan village girl from a loving family, is married (in an arranged
marriage) to Mahendra.
B)The marriage is not a happy one
because Mahendra accuses and never forgives his wife for not being a virgin
when he married her, an accusation which Manthri resolutely denies all her
life. Mahendra moved Manthri and their two children, Nelum their daughter, and
Devake, their son, to Australia.
C) They settle in Adelaide, returning to
Sri Lanka only for brief holidays. Nelum grows up to be bright and independent,
chooses to study medicine, and is resentful of her parents' preoccupation with
their son. Devake, however, not permitted to have any ambition other than
studying medicine as decided for him by his father, becomes withdrawn and
uncommunicative.
D) It is an unhappy household, with
little solidarity between the parents and the estrangement between parents and
their children increasing over time. The tale winds to its unhappy end with
Mahendra living alone and embittered in his house, Manthri, mentally unbalanced
and in an institution, N elum, successful but distant, and Devake, addicted to
drugs and unemployed.
E) all
Ans:E
The author of the novels,1999-Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee,1996-Anita
and Me, and 1995-Six Plays by Black and Asian Women Writers, Meera syal novel tells the story of
Meena, the daughter of the only Punjabi family in the British village of
Tollington. With great warmth and humor, Meera Syal brings to life a quirky,
spirited 1960s mining town and creates in her protagonist what the Washington
Postcalls a “female Huck Finn.” The novel follows nine-year-old Meena
through a year spiced with pilfered sweets and money, bad words, and
compulsive, yet inventive, lies. The novel offers a fresh, sassy
look at a childhood caught between two cultures.
which has
been compared to To Kill a Mockingbird. The novel is
A) 1999-Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee,
B)1996-Anita and Me,
C)1995-Six Plays by Black and Asian Women Writers,
D)
If the Moon Smiled
Ans:B
Talat
Abbasi,
Bitter Gourd and Other Stories (2001) is collection of short 17stories in the collection,
written between 1988and 2001, are very simple in plot and style. She takes everyday incidents from the lives of
Pakistani women and skillfully creates climactic moments around
them. In the first story of the collection, “Bitter Gourd,” Miss
Nilofar visits Rich Relation every
first Friday of each month in order to collect a monthly
remuneration promised to her mother by Rich
Relation’s mother.the auther is
A) Talat Abbasi,
B)Meena Alexander,
C)Anita Rau Badami,
D) Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni,
Ans:A
In “Granny’s Portion,”she deals with the issues of poverty in
old age. In the story, children visit a poor relative,“a granny,” to give
her a portion of meat saved for poor relatives during the Muslim religious
festival of Eid-ul-Azha, or “Eid Qurban.” Stories like “A Piece of Cake,” “Ticketless Riders,” and
“SwattingFlies” examine issues of poverty and childlabor. Here she means
A) Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni,
B)Meena Alexander,
C)Anita Rau Badami,
D) Talat Abbasi,
Ans:D
Meena
Alexander
she is the
author of numerous collections of poetry, including Birthplace with Buried Stones (2013), PEN Open
Book Award–winner Illiterate Heart (2002),
and the forthcoming Atmospheric Embroidery (2018).Here
she means
A) Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni,
B)Meena Alexander,
C)Anita Rau Badami,
D) Talat Abbasi,
Ans:B
Her prose
includes the memoir Fault Lines (1993,
expanded in 2003), the novels Manhattan Music (1997)
and Nampally Road (1991), the essay collections Poetics of Dislocation (2009) and The Shock of Arrival: Reflections on Postcolonial Experience (1996),
as well as the critical studies Women in Romanticism: Mary
Wollstonecraft, Dorothy Wordsworth and Mary Shelley(1989) and The Poetic Self: Towards a Phenomenology of Romanticism (1979).
She is the editor of Indian Love Poems (2005)
and the forthcoming Name Me a Word: Indian Writers
Reflect on Writing (2018).here author is
A) Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni,
B)Meena Alexander,
C)Anita Rau Badami,
D) Talat Abbasi,
Ans:B
In an address to the Yale Political
Union on April 23, 2013, she began with a line from Shelley’s 1821 essay, “A
Defence of Poetry.” The resolution—“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of
the world”—led to a lively debate. Her
poetry collections include The Bird’s Bright Ring (1976), I Root My Name (1977), Without Place (1978), Stone Roots (1980), House of a Thousand Doors (1988), and The Storm: A Poem in Five Parts (1989). She also
wrote a one-act play, In the Middle Earth (1977); a volume of criticism, Women in Romanticism (1989); a
semiautobiographical novel set in Hyderabad,
India, Nampally Road (1991); and a memoir, Fault Lines (1993). The author is
A) Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni,
B)Meena Alexander,
C)Anita Rau Badami,
D) Talat Abbasi,
Ans:B
What did it mean to write as a woman in
the Romantic era? How did women writers test and refashion the claims or the
grand self, the central "I," we typically see in Romanticism? In this
powerful and original study Meena Alexander examines the work of three
women:Except
A) Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-97) the
radical feminist who typically thought of life as "warfare" and
revolted against the social condition of women;
B) Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855) who
lived a private life enclosed by the bonds of femininity, under the protection
of her poet brother William and his family;
C)Mary Shelley (1797-1851), the daughter
that Wollstonecraft died giving birth to, mistress then wife of the poet Percy
Shelley, and precocious author of Frankenstein. Contents: Introduction: Mapping
a Female Romanticism; Romantic Feminine; True Appearances; Of Mothers and
Mamas; Writing in Fragments; Natural Enclosures; Unnatural Creation; Revising
the Feminine; Versions of the Sublime
D) In “Granny’s Portion,” Talat Abbasi deals with the issues of
poverty in old age. In the story, children visit a poor relative,“a
granny,” to give her a portion of meat saved for poor relatives during
the Muslim religious festival of Eid-ul-Azha, or “Eid Qurban.”
Stories like “A Piece of Cake,” “Ticketless
Riders,” and “SwattingFlies” examine issues of poverty and childlabor.
Ans:D
Anita
Rau Badami
She is a writer of South Asian Diaspora
living in Canada Her novels deal with the
complexities of Indian family life and
with the cultural gap that emerges when Indians move to the west. Her first
novel Tamarind Mem deals with bittersweet nostalgia, of her Indian sensibility
portraying her memories of her past days, depicting the descriptions of Indian
domestic life. The author is
A) Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni,
B)Meena Alexander,
C)Anita Rau Badami,
D) Talat Abbasi,
Ans:C
Anita Badami
Her
graduate thesis became her first novel, Tamarind Mem, which was published
worldwide in
1996.
Her bestselling second novel, The Hero's Walk, won the Regional Commonwealth
Writers
Prize,
Italy's Premio Berto and was also named a Washington Post Best Book of 2001. It
was
also
long listed for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Prize and the Orange
Prize for
Fiction,
and shortlisted for the Kiriyama Prize. As well, she is the recipient of the
Marian Engel
Award
for a woman writer in mid-career.she has, until today, written four novels: except
A)Tamarind
Mem(1997),
B) Women in Romanticism (1989)
C)The
Hero’s Walk (2001),
D)
Can You Hear the Nightbird Call (2006), and
E)Tell
it to the Trees (2011)
Ans:B
she
(24th Sept. 1961) born in Rourkela, Orissa, is an Indian-Canadian
novelist.the author of Tamarind Mam(1997), The Hero’s Walk,(2001), Can You Hear
the Night bird call?(2006). Here she means
A) Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni,
B)Meena Alexander,
C)Anita Rau Badami,
D) Talat Abbasi,
Ans:C
Bharati Mukerjee
She
(July 27, 1940) is an award winning Indian born American writer and author to
novels like The Tiger’s Daughter(1971), Wife(1975), The Holder of the
World(1993), Leave It to Me(1997), Desirable Daughters (2002), The Tree Bride
(2004),
and the short stories like Darkness (1985), The Middleman and Other Stories
(1988),
A Father, Tamurlane (1985) etc. She wrote memoir Days and Nights In Calcutta(1977),
and nonfiction like The Sorrow and the Terror: The Haunting Legacy of the Air
India Tragedy (1987), Political Culture and Leadership in India(1991),
Regionalism in Indian Perspective(1992). She won National Book Critics Circle
Award for The Middleman and Other Stories in 1988. Here author is…
A)Anita
Rau Badami,
B)
Kiran Desai,
C)
Gita Hariharan
D)Bharati
Mukerjee,
Ans:D
Chitra Banerjee
Divakaruni,
An Indian American author, poet, and author of Arranged Marriage: Stories (1995) The Mistress of Spices (1997) Sister of My Heart (novel) (1999) The Unknown Errors of our Lives (stories) (2001) Neela: Victory Song (novel) (2002) The Vine of Desire (novel) (2002) The Conch Bearer (novel). The author is
A) Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni,
B)Meena Alexander,
C)Anita Rau Badami,
D) Talat Abbasi
Ans:A
Jumpa Lahiri
She (11th July, 1967)
born in London, is an Indian American author, immigrant from the state of West
Bengal at
the age of three. She is the author
of The Namesake (2003). She has written many short stories like Interpreter of
Maladies (1999), Unaccustomed Earth (2008). She also wrote A Real Durwan and
Other Stories (1993), Only an Address Six Stories by Ashapura Devi (1995),
Accused Palace: Jacobean Stage(1997) etc. here author is
A) Jhumpa Lahiri
B)Sudha
Murthy,
C)Gita
Mehta,
D)kiran
Desai
E)
Bapsi Sidhwa,
Ans:A
The writer is an author with
Pakistan origin and resident in
America. is the author of The Crow Eaters(1978), The Bride(1982),
Cracking India (1991), An American Brat(1993), Water: A Novel(2006), City of
Sin and Splendour: Writings on Lahore(2006).
A) Jhumpa Lahiri
B)Sudha
Murthy,
C)Gita
Mehta,
D)kiran
Desai
E)
Bapsi Sidhwa,
Ans:E
Shauna
Singh Baldwin
She(1962) born in Montreal; Quebec, is a
Canadian-American novelist of Indian descent. She currently lives in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin. She is the author of A Foreign Visitor’s Survival Guide to
America(1992), English Lessons and Other Stories(1996), What the Body
Remembers(2000),
The Tiger Claw(2004), We are not in
Pakistan(short story) (2007), The Selector of Souls(novel) (2012), and We Are
so Different Now(play) (2009). She won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for What
the Body Remembers in 2000.
A)Shashi
Deshpande,
B)Arundhati
Roy,
C)Gita
Hariharan,
D) Shauna Singh Baldwin
E)
Anita Rau Badami
Ans:D
kiran Desai
Her
first novel Hullabalooin the Guava Orchard (1998) received accolades and won
Betti Trask Award and second novel The Inheritance of of Loss (2006) was won the 2006 Booker’s Prize as well as the
2006 National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award. the author is….
A)Anita
Nair,
B)Sudha
Murthy,
C)Gita
Mehta,
D)kiran
Desai
E)
Bapsi Sidhwa,
Ans:D
Shashi Deshpande
She
has been writing The Legacy and Other Stories
(1978), The Dark Holds No Terror (1980), If I Die Today(1982), Come Up
and Be Dead (1983), Roots and Shadows (1983), That Long Silence(1989),The
Intrusion and Other Stories (1993),A Matter of Time (1999),Writing from the
Margin and other Essays, Small Remedies (2000),The Binding Vine(2002),
Narayanpur Incident (2003), Moving On (2004), In the Country of Deceit (2005).
Here she is
A)Shashi
Deshpande,
B)Arundhati
Roy,
C)Gita
Hariharan,
D)Uma
Vasudeva,
E)
Anita Rau Badami
Ans:A
Gita Hariharan
She
(1954) born in Coimbtore, India, grows up in Mumbai and Manila and later went
to US. She worked as a staff writer in the Public Broadcasting System in New
York since 1979; she has worked in Mumbai, Chennai and New Delhi, first as an
editor in a publishing house, then as a
freelancer.
She won the Commonwealth’s
Best
First Book Award in 1993. She has been writing The Thousand Faces of Night, The
Art of Dying, The Ghosts of Vasu Master, A Southern Harvest, In Times of Siege,
When Dreams Travel, The Winning Team, Fugitive Histories. Here she means
A)Anita
Rau Badami,
B)
Kiran Desai,
C)
Gita Hariharan
D)Bharati
Mukerjee,
Ans:C
Namita Gokhle
She has written five novels in
English. They are Paro: Dreams of Passion (1984), Gods, Graves and Grandmother (1994),
A Himalayan Love Stories (1996), The Book of Shadows (1999), Shakuntala (2005),
andother non fiction works are Mountain Echoes: Reminiscence and Kumaoni
Woman(1994), The Book of Shiva(2000), Love Them, Loathe Them (2004), Present
Tense, Living on the Edge (2004), and The Puffen Mahabharata (2009). Here she
means
A)Chitra
Banerjee,
B)
Namita Gokhle,
C)Shobha
De,
D)
Jumpa Lahiri,
Ans:B
Shobha De
She (7th June, 1948), is
an Indian columnist and novelist. She married shipping and business magnate
Dilip De in 1989, a widower with two children Radhika and Randeep. She has been
writing Socialite Evenings (1984), Starry Nights(1989), Sisters(1992),
Uncertain Liaisons(1993),
Shooting from the Hip(1994), Small
Betrayals(1995), Second Thoughts(1996), Selective Memory(1998), Surviving Men
(1998), Speed Post(1999), Spouse -
The
Truth about Marriage, Snopshots,
Strange
Obssession, Super Star India-from
Incredible to Unstopable, Sandhya’s
Secret
(2009), Shobha at Sixty(2010) .
Author is
A) Kamala Das,
B)Nargis
Dalal,
C)Dina
Mehta, Indira
D)shobha
de
Ans:D
Manju Kapur
She is the author of five novels
named Difficult Daughters(1998), A Married Woman(2002),Home(2006),TheImmigrant(2009),
and Custody(2011). Author is
A)Goswami,
B)
Malati Chendur,
C)
Manju Kapur
D)
Gauri Deshpa
Ans:C
‘Difficult Daughters’(1998)
follow the journey of Ida who traces the life of her mother Virmati and
grandmother Kusturi.the author of difficult daughter is
A) Kamala Das,
B)Nargis
Dalal,
C)Dina
Mehta, Indira
D)manju
kapoor
Ans:C
Kamala Markandya
Kamala Markandya depicted Rukmini in
, as a picture of suffering and sacrifice, steeped in love and faith in the background
of rural India in
A) Sunlight on Broken Column(1961)
B)The Nector in the Seive
C)
Cry, the Peacock
D)
ice cady man
Ans:B
The correct statement is….
A)Attia
Hussain’s Sunlight on Broken Column(1961) is a story of Laila, a young growing
up girl against the background of disintegrating family of political upheaval
of pre-partition days.
B)Anita
Desais Cry, the Peacock(1963) presents the disintegration of Maya under variety
of pressures.
C) Kamala Markandya depicted Rukmini in , as a picture of
suffering and sacrifice, steeped in love and faith in the background of rural
India in
D) All
Ans:D
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