Assignment Code: MEG-8/TMA-3/2005

Coverage: Blocks 1-8

Maximum Marks: 100

Attempt all questions and answer each question in approx 450-500 words, unless stated otherwise.

1. Attempt a brief survey of South Asian Literatures in English.

2. What are Ngugi's views about the role of a writer in society? Discuss.

3. What are some of the issues that Soyinka takes up in his play a Dance of the Forests?

4. Bapsi Sidhwa's novel Ice-Candy-Man highlights feminist concerns about women's issues, particularly their experience of victimization and suppression within patriarchal societies.

5. How is a House for Mr. Biswas a diasporic novel?

6. Analyse the representation of women in the extract from Omeros given in your unit.

7. Discuss the levels of dualities present in the interpretation of the Solid Mandala.

8. Discuss the Stone Angel as a novel of awakening