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IGNOU MEG 8 Syllabus : New Literature in English

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MEG 8 - Block 1 Syllabus

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

MEG 8 - Block 2 Syllabus

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

MEG 8 - Block 3 Syllabus

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

MEG 8 - Block 4 Syllabus

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

MEG 8 - Block 5 Syllabus

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

MEG 8 - Block 6 Syllabus

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

MEG 8 - Block 7 Syllabus

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

MEG 8 - Block 8 Syllabus

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