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IGNOU BEGE-144 (July 2024 – January 2025) Assignment Questions
Section A
1. Write short notes in about 100 words each:
(i) Africa and the Slave Trade
(ii) Characterisation
(iv) Postcolonial Novel
(iv) Mademoiselle Reisz
Section B
Answer the following in about 350 words each:
1. Do you find any points of comparison or contrast between Kate Chopin the author and Edna Pontellier the protagonist of The Awakening? Comment.
2. Examine the language aspect in Paraja as a translated text.
3. Examine Things Fall Apart from the point of view of the folk material such as, proverbs, sayings and metaphors in the text.
4. Would it be advisable for us to approach a novel through the form or the content? Give a well reasoned answer with suitable examples.
IGNOU BEGE-144 (July 2023 – January 2024) Assignment Questions
Section A
1. Write short notes in about 100 words each:
(i) Style
(ii) Colonising the African Mind
(iv) Third World Novels
(iv) Edna Pontellier
Section B
Answer the following in about 350 words each:
1. Examine The Awakening using symbolism as a mode of enquiry.
2. Discuss Paraja as a text that deals with the economic plight of tribals.
3. What do you think does a literary text loose in the process of literary translation with reference to Paraja.
4. Criticially ananlyse the consequences of the white man’s arrival in Umuofia, in Achebe’s Things Fall Apart.