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IGNOU BEGC-114 (July 2024 – January 2025) Assignment Questions
Answer all questions. All questions carry equal marks.
1. How do South African writings respond to Apartheid? Discuss.
2. What are the key concerns of Postcolonial Literatures? What do you understand about the term ‘decolonisation’?
3. Critically analyse the portrayal of female characters in “The Collector of Treasures.” How does it contrast with the male characters in the story?
4. Critically analyse the poem “The Way Spain Was.”
5.Ghasiram Kotwal comments on the contemporary reality with the aid of the historical characters. Discuss.
IGNOU BEGC-114 (July 2023 – January 2024) Assignment Questions
1. What do you broadly understand by South African Literature? Is it different from African Literature?
2. What are the major issues generally discussed in the postcolonial short story?
3. Write a critical note on the language of the postcolonial literature.
4. Attempt a critical note on Postcolonial poetry.
5. What do you understand by the term magical realism? Discuss the magical realism in the poetry of Pablo Neruda.
6. Tendulkar has made use of song, dance, music, mime, dialogue and narration in the play Ghashiram Kotwal. Illustrate the extent to which these elements contribute to the total effect of the play.
7. Name and briefly describe the communities whose correspondences and transactions are found in South African writings.