IGNOU MEG-08
- New Literature in English,
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MEG-08 English Topics Covered

Block 1 - Introduction

• Unit 1 - Naming the Discipline
• Unit 2 - African Literature: Culture and Post-Nationalist Politics in Kenya and Nigeria
• Unit 3 - Caribbean Literature: The Aesthetic of Diaspora
• Unit 4 - South Asian Literature
• Unit 5 - Australian Literature: Interrogating National Myths
• Unit 6 - Canadian Literature: Scanning the Literary Landscape

Block 2 - A Gain of Wheat: Ngugi Wa Thiong’o

• Unit 1 - Africa- the Dark Continent and Kenya-the Land of Gikuyu and Mumbi
• Unit 2 - Literature and Politics
• Unit 3 - Modern Novel in Africa
• Unit 4 - Modern Ngugi wa Thiong’o-Life, Literature and Ideology
• Unit 5 - A Grain of Wheat-Summary
• Unit 6 - A Grain of Wheat-An Evaluation

Block 3 - A Dance of Forests: Wole Soyinka

• Unit 1 - An Introduction to Nigeria and to the Yoruba World
• Unit 2 - Whole Soyinka’s Life and Work
• Unit 3 - A Dance of the Forests: Summary
• Unit 4 - Critical Commentary on a Dance of the Forests
• Unit 5 - Whole Soyinka’s Major Dramatic Works Excluding: A Dance of the Forests

Block 4 - Bapsi Sidhwa: Ice-Candy-Man

• Unit 1 - The Author Background, Works, and Significance of the Title
• Unit 2 - The Narrative Voice in Ice Candy-Man
• Unit 3 - Feminist Inscription in Ice Candy-Man
• Unit 4 - Why did Mr. Biswas want a House?
• Unit 5 - Ice Candy-Man as a Novel of Partition
• Unit 6 - Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ice Candy-Man: A Postcolonial Perspective

Block 5 - A House for Mr. Biswas: V.S. Naipaul

• Unit 1 - Naipaul and His Critics
• Unit 2 - Mr.Biswas and the Tulsis
• Unit 3 - Mr. Biswas and his Dream House
• Unit 4 - Why did Mr. Biswas want a House
• Unit 5 - Putting A House for Mr. Biswas in Perspective

Block 6 - Caribbean Poetry: Derek Walcott and Edward Brathwaite

• Unit 1 - Introduction to Caribbean Poetry
• Unit 2 - Derek Walcott-I
• Unit 3 - Derek Walcott-II
• Unit 4 - (Edward) Kamau Brathwaite-I
• Unit 5 - (Edward) Kamau Brathwaite-II
• Unit 6 - Theoretical Paradigms for Caribbean Literature

Block 7 - The Solid Mandala: Patrick White

• Unit 1 - The Novelist and the Novel
• Unit 2 - Openings and Preoccupations
• Unit 3 - Denizens of the Australian Emptiness
• Unit 4 - Message in Motifs
• Unit 5 - Techniques
• Unit 6 - Perspectives

Block 8 - The Stone Angle: Margaret Laurence

• Unit 1 - The Novelist and Her Main Thematic Concerns
• Unit 2 - Hager and Theme of Self-Alienation
• Unit 3 - The Stone Angel: A Novel of Awakening
• Unit 4 - Major Aspects of the Novel

Previous Year Solved Question Papers Included

MEG-08 English (Total-32, Solved-18, Unsolved-14)

• June (2008-2023)
• December (2007-2022)

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