ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
It deals about the concept of otherness, mimicry, and fighting back against the superpowers.
A
Post Colonialism
B
Mythological Archetypal
C
Deconstruction
D
Structuralism
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Mimicry in colonial and postcolonial literature is most commonly seen when members of a colonized society (say, Indians or Africans) imitate the language, dress, politics, or cultural attitude of their colonizers (say, the British or the French).

Detailed explanation-2: -Postcolonial theory is built in large part around the concept of Otherness. The concept of Otherness sees the world “as divided into mutually excluding opposites: if the Self is ordered, rational, masculine, good, then the Other is chaotic, irrational, feminine, and evil” (www.faculty.mccfl.edu) .

Detailed explanation-3: -post-colonialism: Broadly a study of the effects of colonialism on cultures and societies. It is concerned with both how European nations conquered and controlled “Third World” cultures and how these groups have since responded to and resisted those encroachments.

Detailed explanation-4: -One of the most widely employed and most disputed terms in postcolonial theory, hybridity commonly refers to the creation of new transcultural forms within the contact zone produced by colonization.

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