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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
