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

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