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Postcolonial Theory | New Historicism – (Previous Year Questions UGC-NET English)
1. “Provincializing Europe” is a concept propounded by:
2. Imagined Communities is a book by:
3. “Imagined Communities” is a concept propounded by:
4. Who said the following?
“Discursive practices 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.”
5. The rejection of “Universalism” is a mark of:
6. Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri prefer to use Empire rather than imperialism. According to them:
7. Who among the following developed the term “strategic essentialism”?
8. 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.
9. The author of Nation and Narration is:
10. In which of his essays does Homi Bhabha discuss the ‘discovery’ of English in colonial India?
11. Which of the following is not true of Edward Said’s Orientalism?
12. Preface to Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth was written by:
13. 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:
14. The idea of “new ethnicities” in post-war Britain was advanced by:
15. In his book, In Theory, Aijaz Ahmed works out the relations between the three entities:
16. Match the following items/ideas with the writers who first used/popularized them:
Items/Ideas:
(a) The Frontier Thesis
(b) The Lost Generation
(c) Third Space
(d) Structure of Feeling
Writers:
(i) Raymond Williams
(ii) Homi Bhabha
(iii) F.J. Turner
(iv) Gertrude Stein
Choose the correct option from those given below:
17. Match the books with the writers:
Books:
(a) The Madwoman in the Attic
(b) The Wretched of the Earth
(c) Shakespearean Negotiations
(d) Is There a Text in This Class?
Writers:
(i) Frantz Fanon
(ii) Stephen Greenblatt
(iii) Stanley Fish
(iv) Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar
Choose the correct option from those given below:
18. Match the following:
Theorists:
(a) Homi Bhabha
(b) Geoffrey Hartman
(c) Edward Said
(d) Julia Kristeva
Books:
(i) Saving the Text
(ii) The Location of Culture
(iii) Desire in Language
(iv) Culture and Imperialism
Choose the correct option:
19. Who among the following theorists talks about “the circulation of social energy”?
20. Which of the following would not be invoked to describe a form of New Historicist criticism?
21. Which writer applied the term ‘cultural poetics’ to his own critical contribution to make literature and arts as part of social practice?
The rejection of “Universalism” is a mark of: Deconstruction not postcolonial criticism
Universalism implies that generalized norms, values, or concepts can be applied to all people and cultures, regardless of the contexts in which they are located. So, in postcolonial literature, universalism is rejected in favour of cultural relativism.
Correct.