NEW LITERATURES IN ENGLISH
ASSIGNMENT FOR MEG –08
July 2024 and January 2025 Session
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.
2. Write a detailed note on the role that literature and the language in which it is written, has played in Kenya and Nigeria.
3. A Grain of Wheat is based on the Kenyan National movement. Keeping this statement in mind, attempt a critical analysis of the novel.
4. What are some of the major issues that have been explored in A Dance of the Forests? Give a detailed answer.
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.
6. Why did Ms. Biswas want a house? Base your answer keeping the diasporic sensibility in mind.
7. Attempt a critical analysis of Walcott’s poem “Crusoe’s Journal,” keeping the aspect of postcolonialism in mind.
8. Write a detailed note on Brathwaite’s Rastafarianism, as seen in his poetry.
9. What are the major themes that can be traced in The Solid Mandala? Give a detailed answer.
10. Attempt a detailed character analysis of Hagar Shipley as it emerges in the novel, The Stone Angel.
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