MEG 08 Solved Assignment 2020-21

 

MEG 08 NEW LITERATURES IN ENGLISH

Solved Assignment 2020-21

Max Marks: 100

 

Attempt all the ten questions and answer each question in approximately 500 words.

 

1 Do you think ‘New Literatures in English is a more appropriate term than ‘Commonwealth Literatures’? Give reasons for your answer.

 

2 A Grain of Wheat clearly expresses Ngugi’s views about British colonial rule in Kenya. Do you agree? Give a reasoned answer.  

 

3 Is Wole Soyinka making a political statement through his play A Dance of the Forests? Discuss with reference to the play.

 

4 Analyze Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ice-Candy Man as a novel of Partition.

 

5 Examine Naipaul’s A House for Mr. Biswas as a diasporic novel.



 

6 Compare and contrast Brathwaite’s analysis of Jamaican society in “Wings of a Dove” with Walcott’s views on Trinidadian society in “The Spoiler’s Return.”

 

7 How does the poem “Dan is the Man” subvert and debunk the tools of colonial education?

 

8 Does Patrick White use myths and symbols convincingly in The Solid Mandala? Explain with examples from the text.





 

9 Attempt a detailed character sketch of Hager Shipley in the novel The Stone Angel.

 

10 There is a close relationship between language and culture. Do you agree? Base your answer on your knowledge of African literature.

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