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IGNOU MEG-08 (July 2025 – January 2026) Assignment Questions
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.
IGNOU MEG-08 (July 2024 – January 2025) Assignment Questions
1. The changing dimensions of the history of a country always leave an impact on its literature. Do you agree? Base your answer on the course that Australian literary studies has taken.
2. Write a detailed note on the role that literature and the language in which it is written, has played in Kenya and Nigeria.
3. A Grain of Wheat is based on the Kenyan National movement. Keeping this statement in mind, attempt a critical analysis of the novel.
4. What are some of the major issues that have been explored in A Dance of the Forests? Give a detailed answer.
5. Why do you think that Bapsi Sidhwa employed a girl-child as the narrator of the novel Ice-Candy Man? Give a reasoned answer.
6. Why did Ms. Biswas want a house? Base your answer keeping the diasporic sensibility in mind.
7. Attempt a critical analysis of Walcott’s poem “Crusoe’s Journal,” keeping the aspect of postcolonialism in mind.
