IGNOU MWG 007 SOLVED ASSIGNMENT 2021

 

MWG 007 Postmodernism and Gender Solved Assignment 2021

 

Course Code: MWG 007

Course Title: Postmodernism and Gender

Assignment No: MWG 007/AST/TMA-2021

Note: The assignment contains essay type questions. You are required to attempt ANY ONEout of the two questions. Your response (including all parts) should be approximately 1500- 2000 words.

Please write all answers in your own words. Assignments with plagiarized material (copied from course books or any other external sources) will not be accepted. Please read statement on Plagiarism provided in the Programme Guide.                                                    100 Marks

Attempt any ONE of the following:

1. Read Block1, Unit 3 (“Semiotics and the Visual”). Using any visual advertisement that you come across in a magazine/newspaper, offer a semiotic analysis of the advertisement by drawing upon what you have learnt from the work of various scholars. You are free to refer to specific theorists such as John Berger, Judith Williamson, Sara Mills or others. Attach a copy of the advertisement that you are critically analyzing along with your response.

OR

2. A. Read the short story “Erendira” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Block 5, Unit 1 “Fiction and Metafiction”

The original story ends with these lines:

“Erendira had not heard him. She was running into the wind, swifter than a deer, and no voice of this world could stop her. Without turning her head she ran past the salt-peter pits, the talcum craters, the torpor of the shacks, until the natural science of the sea ended and the desert began, but she still kept on running with the gold vest beyond the arid winds and the never-ending sunsets and she was never heard of again nor was the slightest trace of her misfortune ever found.”

Imagine Erendira’s destiny after this ending. Write a suitable sequel to the short story in the tradition of Magical Realism discussed in the Unit on “Fiction and Metafiction”.

B. Discuss the elements of Magical Realism in the fictional narrative you have created from a postmodern perspectiv

 

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