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-European as others.

12. The second characteristics of the post colonial criticism is colonizers’ language.

13. The third characteristics of the post colonial approach is the emphasis on identity as doubled, or hybrid, or unstable.

14. The fourth characteristics of the post colonial criticism is cross-cultural interactions.

15. Post colonial critics examine the representation of other cultures in literature as a way of achieving this end.

16. Post colonial critics celebrate hybridity and ‘cultural polyvalency’ ,that is, the situation whereby individuals and groups belong simultaneously to more than one culture.