Post-Colonial Theory Previous Year UGC-NET English

Which of the following critics is associated with the term “contrapuntal reading”?

[1] Mikhail Bakhtin

[2] Edward said

[3] Roland Barthes

[4] Jacques Derrida

Answer: [2] Edward said

Which of the following statements best articulates Frantz Fanon’s political position?

[1] Colonialism will die a natural death San any violent struggle against it.

[2] Peasants and social outcasts have little revolutionary potential in Africa.

[3] Social oppression in the third world is a matter more of race than of class.

[4] The African bourgeoisie can never succeed in the task of nation building.

Answer: 4

The following statement is given by which of the below mentioned critics?

‘I was indignant: I demanded an explanation, nothing happened. I burst apart’.

[1] Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

[2] Homi K Bhabha

[3] Stuart Hall

[4] Frantz fanon

Answer: [4] Frantz Fanon

Identify the postcolonial critics who used the ideas of Lacan, Foucault and Derrida while critiquing ‘Euro-centrism’?

[A] Homi Bhabha

[B] Gayatri Chakravarty Spivak

[C] Abdul Jan Mohammad

[D] Edward said

[E] Amie Cesaire

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] A, B, C and D only

[2] A, B and C only

[3] B, C, D and E only

[4] C, D and E only

Answer: [1] A, B, C and D only

Match List I with List II

List I

[A] The empire writes back

[B] Nation and narration

[C] Culture and imperialism

[D] The twice born fiction

List II

[I] 1990

[II] 1993

[III] 1989

[IV] 1971

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV

[2] A-III, B-I, C-II, D-IV

[3] A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I

[4] A-II, B-III, C-I, D-IV

Answer: [2] A-III, B-I, C-II, D-IV

Which of the following are the premises of past colonial criticism?

[A] It rejects the claims of universalism made in the canonical western literature.

[B] It foregrounds the questions of cultural difference and diversity as represented in literary texts.

[C] It acts on the principles of peaceful co-existence.

[D] It celebrates ‘hybridity’ and ‘cultural polyvalency’

[E] It resists any attempt at homogenization based on race, class and nationality.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] A, B and D only

[2] A, B, D and E only

[3] B, C and D only

[4] C and D only

Answer: [2] A, B, D and E only

Who is the author of the essay “Three women’s texts and a critique of imperialism” (1985)?

[1] Ania Loomba

[2] Meenakshi Mukherjee

[3] Susan Meyer

[4] Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Answer: [4] Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

“It is significant that the productive capacities of this third space have a colonial or post colonial provenance”. The above lines have been written by

[1] Salman Rushdie

[2] Edward said

[3] Benedict Anderson

[4] Homi K. Bhabha

Answer: [4] Homi K. Bhabha

Which of the two following books are written by Dipesh Chakrabarty?

A) Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference

B) The Subaltern Studies Reader

C) Identity and Violence

D) The Climate of History in a Planetary Age

E) In Other Worlds

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1) A and C only.

2) A and B only.

3) A and D only.

4) B and E only.

Answer: 3) A and D only.

Match List I with List II

LIST I (Output Device) LIST II (Description)

A) The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act I. Joseph Carroll

B) The Pleasure of the Text II. Monique Wittig

C) The Straight Mind and Other Essays III. Roland Barthes

D) Literary Darwinism: Evolution, Human Nature and Literature IV. Fredric Jameson

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1) (A)-(II), (B)-(III), (C)-(I), (D)-(IV)

2) (A)-(II), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(III)

3) (A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(II), (D)-(I)

4) (A)-(IV), (B)-(III), (C)-(II), (D)-(I)

Answer: 4) (A)-(IV), (B)-(III), (C)-(II), (D)-(I)

Which among the following books is NOT written by Edward Said?

1) On Late Style: Music and Literature against the Grain

2) The World, the Text and the Critic

3) Image-Music-Text

4) The Question of Palestine

Answer: 3) Image-Music-Text

Match List I with List II

LIST I LIST II

A Culture and Environment I Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

B In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics II FR Leavis and D Thompson

C The Cultural Turn: Selected Writingson the Postmodern, 1983- 1998 III Fredric Jameson

D The Uses of Literacy IV Richard Hoggart

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1) A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV

2) A-II, B-I, C-III, D-IV

3) A-IV, B-II, C-III, D-I

4) A-III, B-I, C-II, D-IV

Answer: 2) A-II, B-I, C-III, D-IV

Arrange the following in accordance with their dates of first publication:

A) Edward Said, Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient

B) Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act

C) TS Eliot, Notes towards the Definition of Culture

D) Raymond Williams, Keywords

E) Ian Watt, The Rise of the Novel

Choose the correct answer from the following options:

1) C, E, D, A, B

2) D, B, E, A, C

3) B, D, A, E, C

4) A, E, B, D, C

Answer:1) C, E, D, A, B

Which of the following statements/concepts are relevant for understanding of Postmodernism?

(A) Postmodernism and Postcolonialism are mutually dependent in responding to colonial experience.

(B) Lyotard argues that the Postmodern condition is characterised by a deeply felt scepticism towards metanarratives.

(C) Edward W. Said has been instrumental in postmodern theory and criticism.

(D) Jean Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulations is a seminal postmodern text.

(E) Fredric Jameson argues that parody has been replaced by pastiche in postmodernism.

Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

(1) (B), (D) and (E) Only

(2) (A), (B) and (D) Only

(3) (B), (C) and (E) Only

(4) (C), (D) and (E) Only

Answer: (1) (B), (D) and (E) Only

Which of the following is true of Edward Said’s Orientalism?

(A) It was published in 1979.

(B) Utilises the concept of discursive formulation as argued by Foucault.

(C) He has taken up the detailed analysis of imaginative geography and representation of the Orient.

(D) It is one of the foundational texts of Postcolonial theory.

(E) It puts to use Barthes’ concept of ‘death of the author’.

Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

(1) (A), (B) and (E) Only

(2) (A), (B) and (C) Only

(3) (A), (C) and (E) Only

(4) (B), (C) and (D) Only

Answer: (4) (B), (C) and (D) Only

Identify the correct order of the publications given below:

(A) Simon Gikandi’s Maps of Englishness: Writing Identity in the Culture of Colonialism

(B) Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth

(C) Homi K. Bhabha’s Nation and Narration

(D) Ernest Gellner’s Nations and Nationalisms

(E) Robert Young’s Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

(1) (B), (D), (E), (C), (A)

(2) (A), (B), (C), (D), (E)

(3) (A), (C), (D), (E), (B)

(4) (B), (D), (C), (E), (A)

Answer: (4) (B), (D), (C), (E), (A)

Which of the following statements are valid for postcolonial theory and literature?

(A) Abrogation, resistance and assertion form the basis of postcolonial thought.

(B) Postcolonial theory defends binaries of Master and Slave, White and Black, and Coloniser and Colonised.

(C) Weep Not, Child is the first novel in English by an East African Writer, Ngugi Wa Thiong’o.

(D) Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys is based on the experiences of colonized African population.

(E) Homi K. Bhabha, Edward W. Said and Gayatri Spivak are important postcolonial thinkers.

Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

(1) (A), (B) and (D) Only

(2) (B), (D) and (E) Only

(3) (A), (C) and (E) Only

(4) (C), (D) and (E) Only

Answer: (3) (A), (C) and (E) Only

Identify the correct option(s) in the theorisation of nation by Homi K. Bhabha.

(A) Nation arises from similarities among people.

(B) Nationalist representation is defined by ambivalence.

(C) Nationalist representation engages with two contradictory modes of representation

(D) Nationalist discourses are split by a disruptive double-narrative movement

(E) Nation is a stable and fixed category

Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

(1) (A), (B) and (C) Only

(2) (B), (C) and (E) Only

(3) (B), (C) and (D) Only

(4) (C), (D) and (E) Only

Answer: (3) (B), (C) and (D) Only

Match List – I with List – II.

List – I (Work) List – II (Author)

(A) The Wretched of the Earth (I) Benedict Anderson

(B) Nation and Narration (II) Homi K. Bhabha

(C) Culture and Imperialism (III) Edward W. Said

(D) Imagined Communities (IV) Frantz Fanon

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

(1) (A)-(I), (B)-(III), (C)-(IV), (D)-(II)

(2)(A)-(II), (B)-(I), (C)-(III), (D)-(IV)

(3) (A)-(IV), (B)-(II), (C)-(III), (D)-(I)

(4) (A)-(II), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(III)

Answer: (3) (A)-(IV), (B)-(II), (C)-(III), (D)-(I)

“Being a white man, in short, was a very concrete manner of being-in-the-world, a way of taking hold of reality, language and thought.”

What does the theorist signify by the term ‘white man’ here?

(1) A dominating man

(2) A megalomaniac

(3) A man with double consciousness

(4) A form of colonial authority

Answer: (4) A form of colonial authority

Choose the correct option in the light of the following statement:

“The fact that I am a black working-class man will determine my worldview just as much, and perhaps far more than I consciously learn in the domain of ideas.”

(A) Man is capable of making free choices in the sphere of intellection and morality.

(B) The unconscious determines human thought and behaviour

(C) Man is condemned to be free

(D) We bear a form of “otherness” within ourselves

(E) We can no longer talk unequivocally of a writer’s intention.

Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

(1) (B), (D) and (E) Only

(2) (A), (B) and (C) Only

(3) (C), (D) and (E) Only

(4) (A), (B) and (E) Only

Answer: (1) (B), (D) and (E) Only