CVSP 204 Final, Spring 2003

fears AN UNIVERS American University of Beirut | LIBRARY June 12, 2003 Dr. Atif Faddul OY BEIRUT Time: 2 hours CS 204 Final Examination Answer two of the following questions: 1. The impact of colonialism in Naguib Mahfouz’s Midag Alley and Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North takes different forms both direct and indirect. Discuss its manifestations in both novels, providing specific examples. The relation between West and East is comparable to that between Man and Woman. In both cases the relationnbased on power, dominance and silencing. Discuss, referring to Edward Sa’id’s Orientalism and Simone De Beauvoir’s The Second Sex. . Alienation of characters either from society or from the universe is evident in some of the books that we read. Discuss its manifestations in two of the following works: S. Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, N. Mahfouz’s Midaq Alley, A. Malraux’s Man’s Fate. Discuss the impact, positive or negative, of the books we read this semester on you and the world view you held. Provide examples from at least three works for illustration. -