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Feminism

 What is feminism?         Giving equal rights and opportunities to men and women. Books related to feminism:           * A room of one’s own              -   Virginia Woolf.           * Sexual politics                          -   Kate Millett.           * The second sex                        -    Simone-de-Beauvoir.           * Towards feministic poetics   -    Elaine Showalter.  What is meant by women’s writing?            Based on ,noticing that the experience of women has been shaped by their gender and so women’s writing.  Major themes in women’s writing:               Feminism...

Post colonial 1 marks

 1.Post-colonial criticism emerged in the 1990’s. 2.Who wrote the book ‘Culture and Imperialism '? Edward Said. 3.Gayatri Spivak, Homi Bhabha, Edward Said are called the holy trinity of post colonial theory. 4.Touchstone method was introduced by Matthew Arnold. 5.Post-colonial criticism rejected the term universalism. 6. ‘The Wretched of the Earth’ was written by Frantz Fannon. 7.‘Orientalism’, was written by Edward Said. 8.‘Sailing to Byzantium', 1927, and ‘Byzantium’, 1932 were written by W.B. Yeats. 9.Stephen Dedalus is the character In the novel A portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. 10..‘A portrait of the Artist as a Young Man’ was written by James Joyce. 11.Yeats, belonging to a ruling class Protestant in Ireland had a double identity of the Colonizer and the Colonized. 10. The Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe’s first novel is Things Fall Apart, in 1958. 11.The first characteristics of the post colonial criticism is the awareness of the representation of the Non-Europ...