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- New Literature in English,
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MEG-08 English Topics 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 Gain 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 - Modern 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 - Whole Soyinka’s Life and Work
  • Unit 3 - A Dance of the Forests: Summary
  • Unit 4 - Critical Commentary on a Dance of the Forests
  • Unit 5 - Whole Soyinka’s Major Dramatic Works Excluding: A Dance of the Forests

Block 4 - Bapsi 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 Inscription in Ice Candy-Man
  • Unit 4 - Why did Mr. Biswas want a House?
  • Unit 5 - Ice Candy-Man as a Novel of Partition
  • Unit 6 - Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ice Candy-Man: A Postcolonial Perspective

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
  • Unit 5 - Putting A House for Mr. Biswas in Perspective

Block 6 - Caribbean Poetry: Derek Walcott and Edward Brathwaite

  • Unit 1 - Introduction to Caribbean Poetry
  • Unit 2 - Derek Walcott-I
  • Unit 3 - Derek Walcott-II
  • Unit 4 - (Edward) Kamau Brathwaite-I
  • Unit 5 - (Edward) Kamau Brathwaite-II
  • Unit 6 - Theoretical Paradigms for Caribbean 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
  • Unit 6 - Perspectives

Block 8 - The Stone Angle: Margaret Laurence

  • Unit 1 - The Novelist and Her Main Thematic Concerns
  • Unit 2 - Hager and Theme of Self-Alienation
  • Unit 3 - The Stone Angel: A Novel of Awakening
  • Unit 4 - Major Aspects of the Novel

Previous Year Solved Question Papers Included

MEG-08 English (Total-32, Solved-18, Unsolved-14)

  • June (2008-2023)
  • December (2007-2022)

MEG-08 Help Book Details

  • University IGNOU (Indira Gandhi National Open University)
  • Title New Literature in English
  • Language(s) English
  • Code MEG-08
  • Subject English
  • Degree(s) MA
  • Course Optional Courses
  • ISBN 978-93-81690-66-6 (English)
  • Pages 385 (English)
  • Weight 308gms (English)
  • Dimensions (L) 21cm, (W) 15cm, (H) 1cm
  • Author Gullybaba.com Panel
  • Publisher Gullybaba Publishing House Pvt. Ltd.