POSTCOLONIALISM

Question 1

Irish War of Independence

Answer 1

1919-1921

Question 2

The Troubles (date)

Answer 2

late 1960s

Question 3

quotation about Irish Litterature

Answer 3

Anomalous States, Dvid Lloyd
“In a fashion not unfamiliar in post-colonial location, Irish culture is marked by a self-estrangement (…) which is the site of a profoundly contradictory and intensely political ambivalence”

Question 4

a quote from an Irish book

Answer 4

“There was no hope for him at this time” the opening of the story of Dubliners Joyce

Question 5

Date apartheid South Africa

Answer 5

1948

Question 6

strategy in India

Answer 6

divide- and- rule strategy

Question 7

date Nobel Prize

Answer 7

1986 Wole Soyinka Nigerian

Question 8

a postcolonial study

Answer 8

Edward Said Orientalism
Orient rather than being a neutral geographical phrase was a Western construction driven by the need to objectify the other
Colonialism ≠ only occupation and exploitation but also a system of representation

Question 9

a postcolonial study (2)

Answer 9

The location of culture Bhabha
One of the subjugation strategies of colonial power lies in mimicry

Question 10

A Work on Post- British Nigerian

Answer 10

Chinua Achebe Things fall apart 1958
link to a poem of Yeats, The second coming “Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold”
Igbo culture is damaged by colonization

Question 11

An example of intertextuality

Answer 11

Jean Rhys (Carribean) → Wide Sargasso Sea
Charlotte Brontë → Jane Eyre
“madwoman in the attic” = mental alienation is not a given fact but a result of the cultural and sexual alienation

Question 12

Indian novels

Answer 12

• Salman Rushdie Midnight’s Children (1981)
  shows the difficult beginning of India as a nation
• Amitav Gosh The Shadow Line 1988 reflects on the partition between India and Bangladesh

Question 13

Independance India

Answer 13

1947