II MA English Quiz 1

_____ is a mixture between two or more cultures that is a result of colonial impact.

Answer explanation

Hybridity is the characteristic of a culture or a cultural form produced by the interaction of two or more separate parent culture or forms. In postcolonialism, it was discussed to be a result of imperialism and colonial impact.

In taking on the habits, values and knowledge of the colonizers, the colonial subject imitates his or her master. This imitation that hovers between respect and mockery is termed as

• Mimicry

• Hybridity

• Ambivalence

• Innateness

The very idea of establishing a "pure" homogenous national identity is impossible.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

National cultures are being produced from the perspective of disenfranchised minorities.

_____ describes the fluctuating relationship between mimicry and mockery between the colonizers and the colonized.

• Ambivalence

• Innateness

• Marginalization

• Subservience

'The Location of Culture' was written by

'Can the Subaltern Speak?' is written by_____.

Abolition of Sati has been generally understood as a case of "White men saving brown women from____"

• brown men

• Indian men

• British men

• Other white men

Spivak argues that marginalized people have voice in society and the elite can faithfully speak for them.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

The elite rob the subalterns of their own voice and can never faithfully represent them.

In her argument, Spivak combines ideas from

• Marxism

• Feminism

• Deconstruction

• Structuralism

Violence inflicted through thought, speech and writing rather than physical harm is known as____