Online Test: Introduction to Postcolonial Studies

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Refer M H Abram's Glossary for Q. 1 to 9; refer Peter Barry's Beginning Theory for Q 10 to 15

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12. Identify major concerns of postcolonial criticism:

4 points

Cross-cultural interactions

Language, itself, then, is a second area of concern in postcolonial criticism

Undermining the Universalist claims

Western civilization is superior to Eastern is proved by postcolonial criticism

Identity - hybrid, unstable, doubled - recognition of such identities is one of the strengths of the postcolonialist criticism

9. Match these writers with their seminar postcolonial works

4 points

Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction (2001)

Post-Colonial Studies: The Key Concepts (2004)

Nation and Narration (1990)

Feminist Practice and Poststructuralist Theory (1997)

Chris Weedon

Bill Ashcroft and others

Homi K Bhabha

Robert J C Young

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14. Which poet is considered as doubly marginalised? Why?

2 points

Jane Austen. In her work 'Mansfield Park', she did not display that the wealth of Sir Thomas Bertram is coming from slavery in Caribbean sugar farms.

W. B. Yeats. In his poems 'Sailing to Byzantium' (1927) and 'Byzantium' (1932) - he provides an image of Istanbul which is identified with torpor, sensuality and exotic mysticism which is typical of Eurocentric way of looking at the Orient At the same time, these poems frequently expresses desire to regain contact with an earlier, mythical, nationalistic Ireland as typical of writers whose own position is postcolonial.

W. H. Auden. In his poem 'Partition' he expressed his anger against Cyril Radcliff's drawing line on the map to make partition of India.

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5. Edward Said applied a revised form of _______ 's historicist critique of discourse to analyze what he called 'cultural imperialism'.

2 points

Michel Foucault

Homi K Bhabha

Louis Althusser

Jacques Derrida

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8. Match these seminal postcolonial works with their writers

4 points

Homi K Bhabha

Arjun Appadurai

Gayatri Spivak

Edward Said

Culture and Imperialism (1993)

Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization (1996)

In Other Worlds (1987)

The Location of Culture (1994)

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6. Identify central and recurrent issues under the theoretical principles and procedures of postcolonial discourse:

5 points

It also draws attention to a number of postcolonial counter-texts to the 'hegemonic' texts that present a Eurocentric version of colonial history.

The destablishment of Eurocentric norms f literary and artistic values, and to expand the literary 'canon' to include colonial and postcolonial writers.

The rejection of the 'master narrative' of Western imperialism - in which the colonial 'other' is not only subordinated and marginalized, but in effect deleted as a cultural agency - and is replaced by counter-narrative in which the colonial cultures fight their way back into a world history written by Europeans.

Hybridization of colonial languages and cultures

The 'Subaltern' has become a standard way to designate the colonial subject that has been constructed by European discourse and 'internalized' by colonial peoples.

1. Postcolonial studies is the critical analysis of the history, culture, literature, and modes of discourse that are specific to the former colonies of _____ , ______ , ______ and other European imperial powers.

2 points

Australia

Spain

USA

India

France

Canada

England

7. Match these postcolonial writers with their nations

6 points

Africa

Caribbean Island

India

Salman Rushdie

Chinua Achebe

G V Desani

Derek Walcott

V S Naipaul

Wole Soyinka

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15. Who has read Jane Austen's Mansfield Park from postcolonial perspective?

2 points

Frantz Fanon - in 'The Wretched of the Earth'

Edward Said - in 'Culture and Imperialism'

Homi K Bhabha - in 'The Location of Culture'

Gayatri Spivak - in 'Can the Subaltern Speak?'

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10. True or false: One significant effect of postcolonial criticism is undermine the universal claims once made on behalf of literature by liberal humanist critics.

2 points

True

False

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16. Which of the following works were discussed as part of postcolonial studies and criticism? Match the items:

4 points

Dangers of One Story

Era of Darkness

Lagaan

Rang De Basanti

Ashutosh Gowariker

Shashi Tharoor

Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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3. Postcolonial studies also encompass aspects of British literature in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, viewed through a perspective that reveals the ways in which the social and economic life represented in that literature was tacitly underwritten by colonial exploitation.

2 points

2. Postcolonial studies have focused o the Third World countries in ____ , ______ , _____ , and ____ .

2 points

Africa

Asia

South America

Australia

New Zealand

Caribbean Islands

Canada

4. An important text in establishing the theory and practice in the field of Postcolonial studies was ______ by the Palestinian-American scholar ______.

2 points

Can the Subaltern Speak? - Gayatri Spivak

The Location of Culture, Homi K. Bhabha

Orientalism , Edward Said

The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon

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11. Why does postcolonial critics reject universalist claims?

4 points

Because - we may make an error of judging all literatures by a single, supposedly and imaginary 'universal' standard.

Because - if we claim that great literature has a timeles and universal significance we thereby demote or disregard cultural, social, regional and national differences in experiences and outlook.

Because - they did not accept Bharat's Rasa Theory

Because - whenever a universal signification is claimed for a work, then, white, Eurocentric norms and practices are being promoted by a sleight of hand to this elevated status, and all others correspondingly relegated to subsidiary, marginalised roles.

13. Match three phases of postcolonial criticism with feminist criticism

3 points

This corresponds with the early 1970s phase of feminist criticism when the subject matter was the representation of woman by male novelists.

This correspondence with the 'gynotext' phase of feminist criticism, when there is a turn towards the exploration of female experience and identities in books by women.

Feminist criticism displays clear split between theoretical and empirical versions - and we find split between feminism and womanism - or other voices from doubly marginalised women identities like Blak, Dalit etc

The second phase of postcolonial criticism involved a turn towards explorations of themselves and their society by postcolonial writers.

In the third phase, we see split between 'theoretical' and 'empirical' versions - influenced by deconstruction and post-structuralism - such as the works of Homi Bhabha and Edward Said

In its earlier phase, postcolonial criticism took as its main subject matter 'white representations of colonial countiries' and criticised these for their limitations and their biases

This corresponds with the early 1970s phase of feminist criticism when the subject matter was the representation of woman by male novelists.

This correspondence with the 'gynotext' phase of feminist criticism, when there is a turn towards the exploration of female experience and identities in books by women.

The second phase of postcolonial criticism involved a turn towards explorations of themselves and their society by postcolonial writers.

In the third phase, we see split between 'theoretical' and 'empirical' versions - influenced by deconstruction and post-structuralism - such as the works of Homi Bhabha and Edward Said

In its earlier phase, postcolonial criticism took as its main subject matter 'white representations of colonial countiries' and criticised these for their limitations and their biases

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