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MASTER'S DEGREE PROGRAMME IN ENGLISH
Term-End Examination

December, 2005

MEG-8 : NEW LITERATURES IN ENGLISH

Time: 3 hours
Maximum Marks: 100

1. Discuss the relationship between literature and social commitment with special reference to the texts in your couse. (20)
Trace the construction of national identity in Australian literature.

2. A Grain of Wheat is a novel about Kenya's struggle for freedom. Discuss. (20)
OR
How is Soyinka's A Donce of the Forests a departure from traditions of Western drama ?

3. Write a critical note on Shorthill Adventure in Naipaul's A House for Mr Biswas. (20)
OR
Lenny an eight year old polio afflicted child belonging to a Parsi family is the narrator of Ice-Condy Man. Discuss the implications of Sidhwa's choice of Lenny as narrator.

4. Analyze the ways in which Walcott brings together Trinidadian and Western satire in "The Spoiler's Return". (20)
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What do you understand by Brathwaite's 'video style' ? Study it in the light of any three poems trom your course.

5. Discuss The Stone Angel as a novel of middle-class aspirations. (20)
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The mandala motif ln The Solid Mandala is a reflection on the diasporic Australian identity. Comment.