New IGNOU MEG-08 Help Book New Literature in English in English – MA English Latest Edition Guide and Study Material.

Block 1 – Introduction
Naming the Discipline
African Literature: Culture and Post-Nationalist Politics in Kenya and Nigeria
Caribbean Literature: The Aesthetic of Diaspora
South Asian Literature
Australian Literature: Interrogating National Myths
Canadian Literature: Scanning the Literary Landscape

Block 2 – A Gain of Wheat: Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
Africa- the Dark Continent and Kenya-the Land of Gikuyu and Mumbi
Literature and Politics
Modern Novel in Africa
Modern Ngugi wa Thiong’o-Life, Literature and Ideology
A Grain of Wheat-Summary
A Grain of Wheat-An Evaluation

Block 3 – A Dance of Forests: Wole Soyinka
An Introduction to Nigeria and to the Yoruba World
Whole Soyinka’s Life and Work
A Dance of the Forests: Summary
Critical Commentary on a Dance of the Forests
Whole Soyinka’s Major Dramatic Works Excluding: A Dance of the Forests

Block 4 – Bapsi Sidhwa: Ice-Candy-Man
The Author Background, Works, and Significance of the Title
The Narrative Voice in Ice Candy-Man
Feminist Inscription in Ice Candy-Man
Why did Mr. Biswas want a House?
Ice Candy-Man as a Novel of Partition
Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ice Candy-Man: A Postcolonial Perspective

Block 5 – A House for Mr. Biswas: V.S. Naipaul
Naipaul and His Critics
Mr.Biswas and the Tulsis
Mr. Biswas and his Dream House
Why did Mr. Biswas want a House
Putting A House for Mr. Biswas in Perspective

Block 6 – Caribbean Poetry: Derek Walcott and Edward Brathwaite
Introduction to Caribbean Poetry
Derek Walcott-I
Derek Walcott-II
(Edward) Kamau Brathwaite-I
(Edward) Kamau Brathwaite-II
Theoretical Paradigms for Caribbean Literature

Block 7 – The Solid Mandala: Patrick White
The Novelist and the Novel
Openings and Preoccupations
Denizens of the Australian Emptiness
Message in Motifs
Techniques
Perspectives

Block 8 – The Stone Angle: Margaret Laurence
The Novelist and Her Main Thematic Concerns
Hager and Theme of Self-Alienation
The Stone Angel: A Novel of Awakening
Major Aspects of the Novel