MEG - 08
NEW
LITERATURES IN ENGLISH
ASSIGNMENT
2019 - 2020
(Based
on Blocks (1 - 10)
Max. Marks: 100
Attempt all the ten questions and answer each question
in approximately 500 words.
1. What do you understand by the term 'postcolonial'? What role, if any, have diasporic intellectuals played in the institutionalization of postcolonial theory? Discuss
2. “A Grain of Wheat is a very complex portrayal of a significant period of Kenyanhistory”. Discuss.
3. WoleSoyinka makes certain characters play double roles in his play A Dance of theForests. Does this have any significance? Discuss.
4. Theuse of child-narrator modifies the reading of Ice-Candy Man as a Partitionnovel. Discuss.
5. “AHouse for Mr. Biswas brings forth the crisis of identity formation.” Do youagree? Give a reasoned answer.
6. Whatis "Rastafarianism" ? How do you thinkit functions as a counter-culture in Brathwaite's poetry?
7. Examine the implications of the use of metaphors as frames of interpretation, based on your understanding of poetry from the Caribbean islands.
8. The mandala motif in The Solid Mandala is a reflection on the diasporic Australian identity. Discuss in detail.
9. Analyse the theme of redemption in The Stone Angel.
10. In what way has modern critical theory facilitated our understanding of Literature from erstwhile colonized regions such as the Caribbean?
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