LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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The West spends too much time trying to consider an Asian perspective.
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The West tends to look at Asian countries as individual units rather than lump them together.
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The West views matters through its own limited historical position.
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The West refuses to apply economic and political coercion to Asian writers.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Postcolonial critique focuses on forces of oppression and coercive domination that operate in the contemporary world: the politics of anti-colonialism and neocolonialism, race, gender, nationalisms, class and ethnicities define its terrain.
Detailed explanation-2: -Postcolonialism often also involves the discussion of experiences such as slavery, migration, suppression and resistance, difference, race, gender and place as well as responses to the discourses of imperial Europe such as history, philosophy, anthropology and linguistics.
Detailed explanation-3: -New historicism is a movement in literary criticism that began in the 1980s. Its main claim is that the themes and meaning of literature are not universal and cannot be derived from the text alone. Rather, they are the product of the author’s time and cultural situation.