Postcolonial Theory | New Historicism- (Previous Year Questions NET | GATE)

“Provincializing Europe” is a concept propounded by
(A) Edward Said
(B) Paul Gilroy
(C) Abdul R. Gurnah
(D) Dipesh Chakravarty
Ans: (D)

Imagined Communities is a book by
(A) Aijaz Ahmad
(B) Edward Said
(C) Perry Anderson
(D) Benedict Anderson
Ans: (D)

“Imagined Communities” is a concept propounded by
(A) Benedict Anderson
(B) Homi Bhabha
(C) Aijaz Ahmed
(D) Partha Chatterjee
Ans: (A)

Who did the following? “Discursive practice are not purely and simply modes of manufacture of discourse. They take shape in technical ensembles, in institutions, in behavioral schemes, in types of transmission and dissemination in pedagogical forms that both impose and maintain them”

(A) Roland Barthes

(B) Michel Foucault

(C) Homi K. Bhabha

(D) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Ans: (B)

The rejection of “Universalism” is a mark of :
(A) Deconstruction
(B) New Historicism
(C) Structuralism
(D) Postcolonial criticism
Ans: (D)

Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri prefer to use Empire rather than imperialism. According to them
(A) There is only one empire and we had better recognize it. Hence the Empire with E upper case
(B) There may he many empires hut only one is patently visible and operational. That is denoted by Empire with E upper case
(C) The present day empire does not have an identifiable location or centre. Hence we ought to differentiate this view of Empire with E upper case
(D) The culturally dominant global empire is the only one that really matters. We signify that Empire with E upper case
Ans: (C)

Who among the following developed the term strategic essentialism ?
(A) Edward Said
(B) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
(C) Homi Bhabha
(D) Aijaz Ahmed
Ans: (B)

Which of the following statements is the most accurate regarding Edward Said’s thesis in Orientalism
(i) The Europeans used the East dialectically to describe their self-image as irrational and primitive.
(ii) The Oriental people used the West dialectically to define their self-image as irrational and primitive.
(iii) The Europeans used the East oppositionally to define their self-image as rational and modern.
(iv) The Oriental people used the West oppositionally to define their self-image as rational and modern.

(A) (iii)
(B) (iv)
(C) (i) and (iv)
(D) (ii) and (iii)
Ans: (A)

The author of Nation and Narration is
(A) Edward Said
(B) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
(C) Frantz Fanon
(D) Homi Bhabha
Ans: (D)

In which of his essays does Homi Bhabha discuss the ‘discovery’ of English in colonial India?
(A) “Signs taken for Wonders”
(B) “Mimicry”
(C) Nation and Narration
(D) “The Commitment to Theory”
Ans: (A)

Which of the following is not true of Edward Said’s Orientalism?
(A) Makes use of Foucault’s concept of discursive formulation
(B) Is one of the founding texts of Postcolonial theory
(C) Makes use of Barthes’s concept of writerly text
(D) Utilises the Gramscian notion of hegemony
Ans: (C)

Preface to Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth was written by
(A) AimeCesaire
(B) AniaLoomba
(C) Jean Paul Sartre
(D) Edward Said
Ans: (C)

In a remarkably proleptic insight, a critic wrote the following, anticipating Benedict Anderson’s definition of the nation as “an imagined political community”:
“Most novels are in some sense knowable communities. It is part of a traditional method — an underlying stance and approach — that a novelist offers to show people and their relationships in essentially knowable and communicable ways”.
Name the critic and the reference
(A) Van Wyck Brooks, The writer in America
(B) Raymond Williams, The country and the city
(C) Joseph Wood Krutch, The Modern Temper
(D) T.S. Eliot, Notes Towards a Definition of culture
Ans: (B)

The idea of “new ethnicities” in post-war Britain was advanced by …………..
(A) Donald Hall
(B) Stuart hall
(C) Paul Gilroy
(D) Hanif Kureishi
Ans: (B)

In his book, In theory, Ajiaz Ahmed works out the relations between the three entities:
(A) Classes, Nations, Literature’s.
(B) Regions, Nation, Languages.
(C) State, Religions. Gender.
(D) Literature, Print, Theory.
Ans: (A)

Match the following items/ideas with the writers who first used/popularized them :
(a) The Frontier Thesis
(b) The Lost Generation
(c) Third Space
(d) Structure of Feeling
(i) Raymond Williams
(ii) Homi Bhabha
(iii) F . J . Turner
(iv) Gertrude Stein
Choose the correct option from those given below :
(A) (a)-(iv); (b)-(i); (c)-(ii); (d)-(iii)
(B) (a)-(iii); (c)-(i); (c)-iv); (d)-(ii)
(C) (a)-(iii); (b)-(iv); (c)-(ii); (d)-(i)
(D) (a)-(i); (b)-(iii); (c)-(iv); (d)-(ii)
Ans: (C)

Match the books with the writers :
(a) The Madwoman in the Attic
(b) The Wretched of the Earth
(c) Shakespearean Negotiations
(d) Is There a Text in This Class?
(i) Frantz Fanon
(ii) Stephen Greenblatt
(iii) Stanley Fish
(iv) Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar
Choose the correct option from those given below :
(A) (a)-(iii); (b)-(iv); (c)-(i); (d)-(ii)
(B) (a)-(i); (b)-(ii); (c)-(iii); (d)-(iv)
(C) (a)-(iv); (b)-(i); (c)-(ii); (d)-(iii)
(D) (a)-(ii); (b)-(iii); (c)-(iv); (d)-(i)
Ans: (C)

Match the following

a) Homi Bhabha

b) Geoffrey Hartman

c) Edward Said

d) Julia Kristeva

i. Saving the text

ii. The location of culture

iii. Desire in language

iv. Culture and Imperialism

Choose the correct option:

(A) (a)-(i), (b)-(ii), (c)-(iv), (d)-(iii)

(B) (a)-(ii), (b)-(i), (c)-(iv), (d)-(iii)

(C) (a)-(iv), (b)-(iii), (c)-(i), (d)-(ii)

(D) (a)-(iii), (b)-(ii), (c)-(i), (d)-(iv)

Ans: (B)

New Historicism

Who among the following theorists talks about “the circulation of social energy” ?
(A) Raymond Williams
(B) Stephen Greenblatt
(C) Antonio Gramsci
(D) Haydon White
Ans: (B)

Which of the following would not be invoked to describe a form of new Historicist criticism ?
1. Archaeology of social constructs
2. Genealogy of patriarchal discourse
3. Cultural materialism
4. Post-structural recovery of authorial intent
Ans: (4)

Which writer applied the term ‘cultural poetics’ to his own critical contribution to make literature and arts as part of social practice?
1. Stephen Greenblatt
2. Mikhail Bakhtin
3. Jonathan Dollimore
4. Raymond Williams
Ans: (1)