‘New Literature in English’ as a possible advance on ‘Commonwealth Literature’

MEG-08
INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE ASSIGNMENT 2017-2018 (Based on Blocks 18) 
Course Code: MEG-08/ 2017-18 Max. Marks: 100

10. Analyse the term ‘New Literature in English’ as a possible advance on ‘Commonwealth Literature’

(i) It should be borne in mind that the non-British  authors whose works emerged from the cross-cultural
contact between the British colonisers  and the colonised natives have not always been  rightly appraised as it hap-
pened with the valuation of Toru Dutt's poetry by Edmund Gosse.
(ii)   According to Norman Jeffares:
It is quite understandable that:
(a) Literature should be judged according to cosmopolitan standards and not national standards.
(b) The literatures of different nationalities and regions:
—provide local colour, and also
—enrich the English language.

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The Stone Angel as an appropriate title for Laurence’s novel

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INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE ASSIGNMENT 2017-2018 (Based on Blocks 18) 
Course Code: MEG-08/ 2017-18 Max. Marks: 100

9. Do you think that The Stone Angel is an appropriate title for Laurence’s novel? Give reasons for your answer.

The Stone Angel – The Title

1. Laurence said in an interview with Michel Fabre (in 1981): “Titles are important as they should in some way express the theme of the  book in a rather poetic way.”

2. “Solid and, ethereal, opaque and spiritual, The StoneAngel confronts the reader with a challenge that is left all the move because  of the oxymoron  quality of the phrase,”  says Simone Vauthier in  her essay, “Image  in Stones, Images in Words.”

3. Says further Vauthier: “Announcing the new–the text to come–also resonates with the old: Thomas Wolfe’s lyrical novel,  Look Homeward Angel.  Hardly have  we had time  to puzzle  about it, however  when the  narration blocks our flight of imagination by presenting us with a fictional referent for the title. “Above the town, on the hill brow, the stone angel used to stand  ....” (p. 3)

4. (i) The Stone Angel is a marble statue “brought from Italy at great expense.”

(ii)  It is erected in the cemetery in memory of the narrator – protagonist's  mother.

(iii) This has its  effect on the narrator's  memory : “She viewed the  town with sightless  eyes.” (p. 3) This  is characteristic as much of Hagar as of the statue.

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Character sketches of both Waldo and Arthur and show how they are not ordinary twins, but also a device for dramatizing the antithetical self.

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INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE ASSIGNMENT 2017-2018 (Based on Blocks 18) 
Course Code: MEG-08/ 2017-18 Max. Marks: 100

8. Attempt character sketches of both Waldo and Arthur and show how they are not ordinary twins, but also a device for dramatizing the antithetical self.

Waldo
1.
Main characteristics of his  character are:
(i)   tension
(ii)   rigidity
(iii)   stomach-trouble
(iv)   misanthropy
(v)   fastidious disgust
(vi)   dislikefor:
(a) love and
(b)  relationships

(vii)   desiring to be an artist, he finds such things a hindrance to his personal identity as such. 

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A critical analysis of the poem “Stone” by Brathwaite.

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INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE ASSIGNMENT 2017-2018 (Based on Blocks 18) 
Course Code: MEG-08/ 2017-18 Max. Marks: 100

7.Attempt a critical analysis of the poem “Stone” by Brathwaite. 

1.   In this poem, dedicated to Mikey  Smith, the radical artist, we are confronted directly with the persona  of
the subject.
2.   The poem describes the last moments of Smith’s life when he was stoned to death on the Stony Hill.
3.   There is a sort of pathetic fallacy in the  predatory aspect of Nature:
(i)  As the first stone fell on Smith, it was morning and the sky was “johncrow” (threatening).
(ii) As the stone actually fell  on the persona, the sky became “the red sea sky.”

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Examination and critical analysis of "The Spoiler's Return" by Walcott about the corruption in Trinidadian society.

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INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE ASSIGNMENT 2017-2018 (Based on Blocks 18) 
Course Code: MEG-08/ 2017-18 Max. Marks: 100

6. “The Spoiler’s Return” by Walcott talks about the corruption in Trinidadian society. Examine the poem and critically analyse it. 

Derek Walcott, by his work, achieved  three colossal feats.

First, he wrote about the Caribbean landscape in such as way as to magnify it. Not only did he give our landscape

a certain epic status,  he conferred on it deific  significance as perhaps only the  fallen Taino, Arahuacan ancestors, deified before. Here is Walcott writing in Omeros: “The same sunrise stirred the feathered lances  of cane down the archipelago’s highways.” This is not just cane. Cane  you pass by when coming down the highway. He bequeaths  stature and majesty to ordinary cane. He confers  on us our landscape -that  which we have been taught,  like Caliban, the Shakespearean slave, to despise-a majesty

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Analysis A House for Mr. Biswas as a Diaspora allegory

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INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE ASSIGNMENT 2017-2018 (Based on Blocks 18) 
Course Code: MEG-08/ 2017-18 Max. Marks: 100

Analyse A House for Mr. Biswas as a Diaspora allegory 

Diasporic Novel

1. (i) Away from the motherland, the diasporans feel a sense of loss and gloom.

(ii) To bridge cultures through widening of experience needs the diasporic sensibility.

2. If A House for Mr. Biswas is read on postcolonial premises, this diasporic unhappiness becomes clear.

3. (i) Mr. Biswas did find a house in the Sikkim street at last, but it was an ideal one upto his expectations.

(ii) He only consoled himself with its illusory benefits like the soothing shade of the laburnum tree.

4. The “Root” and “Route” metaphors:

These two  metaphors are  used in the  study of  diasporic literature by  Paul Gilroy  in “The Black  Atlantic 

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Analysis of the novel Ice-Candy Man from a postcolonial perspective

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INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE ASSIGNMENT 2017-2018 (Based on Blocks 18) 
Course Code: MEG-08/ 2017-18 Max. Marks: 100

2. Analyse the novel Ice-Candy Man from a postcolonial perspective. 

What is the Postcolonial?
1.  About three quarters of the people of the world come under the influence of  colonialism.
2.  The term “postcolonial” is used by Bill Ashcroft et al (in “The Empire Writes Back” – 1989) to “Cover all
the culture affected by the imperial process from the immanent of colonization to the present day.”
3.  We can say, as per Ashcroft’s definition that :
All the literature which has been written in the countries under the process of colonization (colonized countries),
from the time of colonization to the present day, should be termed as postcolonial literature

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A detailed note on Soyinka's political activism

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INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE ASSIGNMENT 2017-2018 (Based on Blocks 18) 
Course Code: MEG-08/ 2017-18 Max. Marks: 100

3. Write a detailed note on Soyinka’s political activism. 

There is a scene  of chaos in most of Sub-Saharan African countries.

2.   They are oppressed by:

(i)   Civil wars

(ii)   Social disturbances

(iii)   Military dictatorships

(iv)   Large-scale political violence

(v)   Tyrannical conditions

(vi)   Widespread corruption

(vii)   Economic stagnation

(viii)   Famines

(ix)   Droughts

(x)   Hunger deaths

(xi)   Unemployment

(xii)   Large-scale rigging in elections

(xiii)   Wide disparity between incomes

(xiv)   Callousness and highlandedness of the ruling cliques, etc.

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A critical summary of the novel A Grain of Wheat

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INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE ASSIGNMENT 2017-2018 (Based on Blocks 18) 
Course Code: MEG-08/ 2017-18 Max. Marks: 100

2. Attempt a critical summary of the novel A Grain of Wheat. 
   

The events of the novel take place in the days of 1963 before and on the day of Uhuru, Kenya’s liberation from British colonial rule. The novel also features flashbacks of the past.

Mugo, an introverted villager of Thabai, does not want to give a speech at Uhuru, even though town elders ask him to. The village thinks him a hero for his stoicism and courage while he was in detention during Kenya’s State of Emergency, but he labors under a secret: he betrayed their beloved Mau Mau fighter, Kihika. He is restless and can achieve no peace in the village.

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Postcolonial analysis of South Asian literature.

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INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE ASSIGNMENT 2017-2018 (Based on Blocks 18) 
Course Code: MEG-08/ 2017-18 Max. Marks: 100

1. Attempt a postcolonial analysis of South Asian literatures written in English.

The following points should be noted in this context:

1.  As per  the postcolonial  point of view  the old canonized  works such as  Shakespeare’s The Tempest  and

Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre need to be studied afresh from the revisionist angle in view of authorial intention and

universal meaning.

2.  The teaching of the colonial text is bound to differ in  the classroom teaching.

3.  It is worth-noting that like Ngugi  in Kenya, Mahatma Gandhi in India was totally opposed to the English

education.

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Das neighbours: Alis and Misras

MEG-07
INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE ASSIGNMENT 2017-2018 (Based on Blocks 18) 
Course Code: MEG-07/ 2017-18 Max. Marks: 100

Das neighbours: Alis and Misras 

Alis: One of the most important minor  character of the novel is Hyder Ali, the neighbour and landlord of  Das family. It is the first part of the novel that we hear his name for the first time during the conversation between Tara and Bim.  Tara talks  about the  time when  Bim and  Raja played  on the  banks of   the  river. Bim  on this replies thinking: “And the white horse riding by, Hyder Ali Sahib up on it, high above us, and his peon running in front of him,shouting, and his dog behind barking?’ She laughed quite excitedly, seeing  it again, this half-remembered picture.

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