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IGNOU MEG-15 (July 2024 – January 2025) Assignment Questions
1. Write a note on cultural diversity in the contemporary world. How do cultural studies contribute to our understanding of culture?
2. Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea is a retelling of Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre. Discuss it as a Poet colonial text.
3. Why do some critics describe autobiography as fiction? Explain.
4. Do you find features of magical realism in folk tales? Discuss.
5. How is ‘The Palm – Wine Drinkard compared with Ben Qkri’s The Famished Road
IGNOU MEG-15 (July 2023 – January 2024) Assignment Questions
1. How does a film that has been adapted from a story/novel affect our understanding of the text through the shift of perspective? Illustrate.
2. What do you understand by the term ‘oral literature’? Illustrate.
3. Explain with examples how Andhayug is relevant to our times.
4. What is magical realism? What are its defining characteristics? Illustrate.
5. What do you understand by ‘shifting perspectives? How does it influence our interpretation of a cultural work?
6. Do you think that studies in comparative literature can help to bring about world harmony? How?
7. How is the area of cultural studies related to comparative literature.
8. What do you understand by the terms ‘centre’ and ‘periphery’? Illustrate.
9. Can translation be regarded as re telling? Explain with examples.
10. How does inter-literariness affect out interpretation of texts?