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Question 1

Postmodernism

Answer 1

International movement in the arts that embraces eclecticism,
historical nostalgia, play, paradox, dissonance. Important themes
are identity, history, consumer culture, loss of orientation and the
disbelief in grand narratives.

Question 2

Grand Narratives

Answer 2

Aka meta narratives, belief systems which claim to explain the
course of history and the necessities of the future in a comprehensive and normative way (Liberalism, Marxism,
Christianity, Judaism, the Islam etc.)

Question 3

Gender Performance

Answer 3

The idea that gender (socially sanctioned masculine or feminine
behavior) does not “naturally” follow biological sex, but is in fact a
publicly supported or a suppressed performance, which has a
normalizing consequence.

Question 4

Orientalism

Answer 4

Imitation or depiction of Middle Eastern, South Asian and East
Asian cultures by writers, painters etc. from the West. Very often,
the East has served as “the other” and has been essentialized as
underdeveloped, barbaric, exotic, wild etc. with a patronizing point
of view.

Question 5

Hybridity

Answer 5

The suggestion that on account of various colonialisms and neo-
colonialisms (including globalization) cultural identities are not
marked by essential/natural qualities but by blends, mixtures,
appropriations and imitations of diverse elements.

Question 6

Post/Neo-colonialism

Answer 6

Theoretical orientation which explores the consequences of
colonizations, de-colonizations and (capitalist, neo-liberal) neo-
colonizations. These consequences are present in questions of
identities (hybridity, nostalgia), observations (orientalism, colonial
gaze), migrations (Diasporas, borderlands) and forms of power
(subalternity, hegemony, othering).