WSS Critics

Question 1

Oyewúmi:
Gender and Colonialism

Answer 1

“Any discussion of hierarchy in the colonial situation, in addition to employing race as the basis of distinctions, should take into account its strong gender component”

Question 2

Forrester:
Liminality

Answer 2

“Antoinette is trapped between two cultures, clearly without a status, a condition which is clearly linked to her descent into madness”

Question 3

Bennet and Royle, “An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory”:
Invisibility

Answer 3

“invisibility . . . [being] the condition of racial otherness”.
- Mulitvocality

Question 4

Andrew Okolie:
Identity and Othering

Answer 4

“identity has little meaning without the ‘other’’”
- Tia’s violent othering