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MEG-08 NEW LITERATURES IN ENGLISH Solved Assignment 2022-2023
NEW LITERATURES IN ENGLISH
ASSIGNMENT FOR MEG –08
July 2022 and January 2023 Session
Programme: MEG
Assignment Code: MEG-08/TMA/2022-23
Max Marks : 100
| Title Name |
MEG-08 English Solved Assignment 2022-2023 |
| University | IGNOU |
| Service Type | Solved Assignment (Soft copy/PDF) |
| Course | MA(English) MEG |
| Language | ENGLISH |
| Semester | 2022-2023 Course: MA(English) MEG |
| Session | For July, 2022 and January, 2023 Session |
| Short Name | MEG-08 |
| Assignment Code | MEG-08/TMA/2022-23 |
| Product | Assignment of MA(English) 2022-2023 (IGNOU) |
| Submission Date | The completed assignment should be sent to the Coordinator of the Study Centre allotted to you by 31st March (if enrolled in the July Session) and 30th Sept (if enrolled in the January session). |
Attempt all the ten questions and answer each question in approximately 500 words.
1. Canada’s literary enterprise has passed through many stages. Discuss its journey and the
impacts that have helped Canada to evolve its own literary traditions and identity.
10
2. Write a detailed note to show how the literatures in English, emerging from South Asia,
reflect the colonial encounter.
10
3. Through his novel, A Grain of Wheat, Ngugi presents his views about the British colonial
rule in Kenya. Discuss with examples from the text.
10
4. Soyinka believed that an artist should not live in an ivory tower and instead should write
works which were socially relevant. Discuss how A Dance of the Forests reflect his
social concerns.
10
5. Ice-Candy Man highlights feminist concerns. Elucidate the role played by the major
female characters of the novel.
10
6. A House for Mr. Biswas is a chronicle of socio-political changes vis-à-vis Trinidad
society. Discuss with examples from the text.
10
7. Language is an effective tool for exerting control and battles can be fought on the
linguistic terrain. Discuss this with reference to the Caribbean colonization.
10
8. Critically analyse the poem ‘Ananse’ by Edward Brathwaite.
10
9. Write a detailed note on myth, symbol and allegory present in The Solid Mandala.
10
10. Discuss The Stone Angel as a novel of awakening citing examples from the text.
10
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