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NEW LITERATURES IN ENGLISH
ASSIGNMENT FOR MEG –08
July 2023 and January 2024 Session
Programme: MEG
Assignment Code: MEG-08/TMA/2023-24
Max Marks : 100
Attempt all the ten questions and answer each question in approximately 500 words.
1. Discuss the relationship between literature and social commitment with reference to the
texts in your course.
10
2. A Grain of Wheat is a novel about Kenya’s struggle for freedom. Discuss.
10
3. What political statement does Soyinka make in his play A Dance of the Forests?
10
4. Discuss the manner in which Bapsi Sidhwa presents the partition in Ice-Candy Man.
10
5. Examine A House for Mr. Biswas as a diasporic novel.
10
6. Write a critical account of the relationship between history and language in Derek
Walcott’s poetry.
10
7. Analyse the evolution of a distinct ‘video style’ in Braithwaite’s poems.
10
8. The characters in The Solid Mandala are a reflection of the themes of the novel. Discuss.
10
9. What are the various functions that the stone angel serves in the novel The Stone Angel?
10
10. Migrant intellectuals have played a significant role in institutionalizing postcolonial
theory. Discuss.
1
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