Exam Details

Subject New Literatures in English
Paper
Exam / Course Masters Degree Programme in English
Department School of Humanities (SOH)
Organization indira gandhi national open university
Position
Exam Date December, 2015
City, State new delhi,


Question Paper

1. On what grounds can the term 'Commonwealth Literature' be critiqued? Explain.

2. What are the implications of the term in the expression 'the dark continent' as applied to Africa?

3. Why did Thiong'o choose resistance to Colonialism as the theme of his novel, A Grain of Wheat? Elaborate.

4. Ice-Candy-Man is an autobiographical novel. Discuss with special reference to Bapsi Sidhwa's status as a Parsi woman from the Third World.

5. What are the main thematic concerns in The Stone Angel? Discuss.

6. How does the Mandala motif work in different ways, at the level of theme and structure, in The Solid Mandala?

7. Discuss Brathwaite's Rastafarian analysis of Jamaican society in "Wings of a Dove".

8. Examine A House for Mr. Biswas as a diasporic novel.


Departments

  • Centre for Corporate Education, Training & Consultancy (CCETC)
  • Centre for Corporate Education, Training & Consultancy (CCETC)
  • National Centre for Disability Studies (NCDS)
  • School of Agriculture (SOA)
  • School of Computer and Information Sciences (SOCIS)
  • School of Continuing Education (SOCE)
  • School of Education (SOE)
  • School of Engineering & Technology (SOET)
  • School of Extension and Development Studies (SOEDS)
  • School of Foreign Languages (SOFL)
  • School of Gender Development Studies(SOGDS)
  • School of Health Science (SOHS)
  • School of Humanities (SOH)
  • School of Interdisciplinary and Trans-Disciplinary Studies (SOITDS)
  • School of Journalism and New Media Studies (SOJNMS)
  • School of Law (SOL)
  • School of Management Studies (SOMS)
  • School of Performing Arts and Visual Arts (SOPVA)
  • School of Performing Arts and Visual Arts(SOPVA)
  • School of Sciences (SOS)
  • School of Social Sciences (SOSS)
  • School of Social Work (SOSW)
  • School of Tourism & Hospitality Service Sectoral SOMS (SOTHSM)
  • School of Tourism &Hospitality Service Sectoral SOMS (SOTHSSM)
  • School of Translation Studies and Training (SOTST)
  • School of Vocational Education and Training (SOVET)
  • Staff Training & Research in Distance Education (STRIDE)

Subjects

  • A Survey Course in 20th Century Canadian Literature
  • American Literature
  • American Novel
  • Aspects of Language
  • Australian Literature
  • British Drama
  • British Novel
  • British Poetry
  • Contemporary Indian Literature in English Language
  • English Studies in India
  • Indian English Literature
  • Literary Criticism and Theory
  • New Literatures in English