MEG-8 2025-26 SOLVED ASSIGNMENT

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NEW LITERATURES IN ENGLISH
ASSIGNMENT FOR MEG –08
July 2025 and January 2026 Sessions
Programme:MEG
Assignment Code: MEG-08/TMA/2025-26

1. Examine the relationship between literature and politics in the context of Kenyan prose writing and Nigerian theatre.
2. Comment on the role of national language in constituting identity within indigenous Caribbean literary traditions.
3. How do South Asian English literatures critique and respond to the legacy of British colonialism?
4. Analyse the importance of the title A House for Mr. Biswas and its connection to the protagonist’s journey.
5. How does the story of Gikonyo and Mumbi illustrate the impact of colonialism and its aftermath on traditional African society? Discuss with reference to the text.
6. What are the elements that Soyinka adopts from Yoruba ritual and drama into his play? Discuss with examples.
7. “Mother’s motherliness has a universal reach, and like her involuntary female magnetism, it cannot be controlled…I resent this largesse.” In light of this statement by Lenny, discuss the character of Mother in Ice-Candy Man.
8. Attempt a critical analysis of the poem “Wings of A Dove”.
9. Critically comment on the title of the poem “Crusoe’s Journal.” How does the title reflect the themes and narrative perspective within the poem?

10 Analyze the elements of a Vollendungsroman present in The Stone Angel.