MEG8 New Literature In English (IGNOU Help book for MEG-8 in English Medium)

MEG - 8 New Literature

CONTENTS COVERED

Block- 1 Introduction

Unit-1 Naming the Discipline

Unit-2 African Literature: Culture and Post-Nationalist Politics in Kenya and Nigeria

Unit-3 Caribbean Literature: The Aesthetic of Diaspora

Unit-4 South Asian Literature

Unit-5 Australian Literature: Interrogating National Myths

Unit-6 Canadian Literature: Scanning the Literary Landscape

Block- 2 A Grain of Wheat: Ngugi Wa Thiong’o

Unit-1 Africa-The Dark Continent and Kenya—The Land of Gikuyu and Mumbi

Unit-2 Literature and Politics

Unit-3 Modern Novel in Africa

Unit-4 Ngugi wa Thiong’o – Life, Literature and Ideology

Unit-5 A Grain of Wheat – Summary

Unit-6 A Grain of Wheat – An Evaluation

Block- 3 A Dance of Forests: Wole Soyinka

Unit-1 An Introduction to Nigeria and to the Yoruba World

Unit-2 Wole Soyinka’s Life and Works

Unit-3 A Dance of the Forests: Summary

Unit-4 Critical Commentary on A Dance of the Forests

Block- 4 Dapsi Sidhwa: Ice-Candy-Man

Unit-1 The Author: Background, Works, and Significance of the Title

Unit-2 The Narrative Voice in Ice-Candy-Man

Unit-3 Feminist Inscriptions in Ice-Candy-Man

Unit-4 Parsi Identity in Ice-Candy-Man

Unit-5 Ice-Candy-Man as a Novel of Partition

Block- 5 A house for Mr. Biswas: V.S. Naipaul

Unit-1 Naipaul and his Critics

Unit-2 Mr. Biswas and the Tulsis

Unit-3 Mr. Biswas and his Dream House

Unit-4 Why did Mr. Biswas want a House?

Block- 6 Caribbean Poetry: Derek Walcott and Edward Brathwaite

Unit-1 Introduction to Caribbean poetry

Unit-2 Derek Walcott-I

Unit-3 Derek Walcott-I

Unit-4 (Edward) Kamau Brathwaite-I

Unit-5 (Edward) Kamau Brathwaite-II

Unit-6 Theoretical Paradigms for Carribbean Literature

Block- 7 The Solid Mandala: Patrick White

Unit-1 The Novelist and The Novel

Unit-2 Openings and Preoccupations

Unit-3 Denizens of the Australian Emptiness

Unit-4 Message in Motifs

Unit-5 Techniques

Block- 8 The Novelist and Her Main Thematic Concerns

Unit-1 The Novelist and Her Man Thematic Concerns

Unit-2 Hager and The Theme of Self – Alienation

Unit-3 The Stone Angel: A Novel of Awakening

Unit-4 Major Aspects of the Novel

QUESTION PAPERS

1. Solution Paper - Dec 2007

2. Solution Paper - June 2008

3. Solution Paper - Dec 2008

4. Solution Paper - June 2009

5. Solution Paper - Dec 2009

6. Solution Paper - June 2010

7. Question Paper - Dec 2010

8. Solution Paper - June 2011

9. Question Paper - Dec 2011

10. Question Paper - June 2012

11. Question Paper - Dec 2012

12. Question Paper - June 2013

13. Question Paper - Dec 2013

14. Question Paper - June 2014

15 Question Paper - Dec 2014

16. Question Paper - June 2015

17.Question Paper - Dec 2015