MEG-08 NEW LITERATURES IN ENGLISH Solved Assignment 2024-2025

MEG-08 NEW LITERATURES IN ENGLISH Solved Assignment 2024-2025

NEW LITERATURES IN ENGLISH
ASSIGNMENT FOR MEG –08
July 2024 and January 2025 Session
Programme: MEG/MEGOL
Assignment Code: MEG-08/TMA/2024-25
Max Marks : 100

Attempt all the ten questions and answer each question in approximately 500 words.
1. The changing dimensions of the history of a country always leave an impact on its
literature. Do you agree? Base your answer on the course that Australian literary studies
has taken.
10
2. Write a detailed note on the role that literature and the language in which it is written, has
played in Kenya and Nigeria.
10
3. A Grain of Wheat is based on the Kenyan National movement. Keeping this statement in
mind, attempt a critical analysis of the novel.
10
4. What are some of the major issues that have been explored in A Dance of the Forests?
Give a detailed answer.
10
5. Why do you think that Bapsi Sidhwa employed a girl-child as the narrator of the novel
Ice-Candy Man? Give a reasoned answer.
10
6. Why did Ms. Biswas want a house? Base your answer keeping the diasporic sensibility in
mind.
10
7. Attempt a critical analysis of Walcott’s poem “Crusoe’s Journal,” keeping the aspect of
postcolonialism in mind.
10
8. Write a detailed note on Brathwaite’s Rastafarianism, as seen in his poetry.
10
9. What are the major themes that can be traced in The Solid Mandala? Give a detailed
answer.
10
10. Attempt a detailed character analysis of Hagar Shipley as it emerges in the novel, The
Stone Angel.

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