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IGNOU MEG-08 (July 2024 – January 2025) Assignment Questions
1. The changing dimensions of the history of a country always leave an impact on its literature. Do you agree? Base your answer on the course that Australian literary studies has taken.
2. Write a detailed note on the role that literature and the language in which it is written, has played in Kenya and Nigeria.
3. A Grain of Wheat is based on the Kenyan National movement. Keeping this statement in mind, attempt a critical analysis of the novel.
4. What are some of the major issues that have been explored in A Dance of the Forests? Give a detailed answer.
5. Why do you think that Bapsi Sidhwa employed a girl-child as the narrator of the novel Ice-Candy Man? Give a reasoned answer.
6. Why did Ms. Biswas want a house? Base your answer keeping the diasporic sensibility in mind.
7. Attempt a critical analysis of Walcott’s poem “Crusoe’s Journal,” keeping the aspect of postcolonialism in mind.
IGNOU MEG-08 (July 2023 – January 2024) Assignment Questions
1. Discuss the relationship between literature and social commitment with reference to the texts in your course.
2. A Grain of Wheat is a novel about Kenya’s struggle for freedom. Discuss.
3. What political statement does Soyinka make in his play A Dance of the Forests?
4. Discuss the manner in which Bapsi Sidhwa presents the partition in Ice-Candy Man.
5. Examine A House for Mr. Biswas as a diasporic novel.
6. Write a critical account of the relationship between history and language in Derek Walcott’s poetry.
7. Analyse the evolution of a distinct ‘video style’ in Braithwaite’s poems.
8. The characters in The Solid Mandala are a reflection of the themes of the novel. Discuss.
9. What are the various functions that the stone angel serves in the novel The Stone Angel?
10. Migrant intellectuals have played a significant role in institutionalizing postcolonial theory. Discuss.
