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IGNOU MEG-15 (July 2025 – January 2026) Assignment Questions
Answer any five of the following:
1. What is meant by Eurocentrism? Analyse the reactions to Eurocentrism after decolonisation. How did it shape Western Comparative Literature?
2. What is magic realism? Define its key characteristics.
3. Distinguish between Oral and written literatures. Give examples.
4. Trace the development of the Bhakti Movement.
5. State the role of ‘retellings’ in mediating between past and present in a given culture and society.
6. The process of writing the autobiographies helped Rasha Sundari, Maya Angelou and Sally Morgan to search for ‘self’ and ‘place’ in the society and culture of their times? Elaborate.
7. Elucidate the concept of ‘interliterariness’ with regard to literatures of India. Comment on its relevance.
8. Comment on the psychological motivation of Yuyutsu and Vidura in Andha Yug.
IGNOU MEG-15 (July 2024 – January 2025) Assignment Questions
1. Write a note on cultural diversity in the contemporary world. How do cultural studies contribute to our understanding of culture?
2. Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea is a retelling of Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre. Discuss it as a Poet colonial text.
3. Why do some critics describe autobiography as fiction? Explain.
4. Do you find features of magical realism in folk tales? Discuss.
5. How is ‘The Palm – Wine Drinkard compared with Ben Qkri’s The Famished Road
