What is the main function of postcolonial criticism ?

Related Mcqs:

1. What is the main function of postcolonial criticism ?

   A. To represent the relationship between colonizers and the colonized
   B. To draw attention to the positive effects of colonization on literature
   C. To explain why there are few examples of successful non-Western literature
   D. To show the ways in which most Western literature is superior

2. Which of the following texts is considered the first example of postcolonial criticism ?

   A. Harold Bloom’s “An Elegy for the Canon”
   B. Jacques Lacan’s “The Mirror Stage … ”
   C. Cleanth Brooks’s “Keats’s Sylvan Historian”
   D. Edward Said’s Orientalism

3. Which of the following texts is considered the first example of postcolonial criticism ?

   A. Harold Bloom’s “An Elegy for the Canon”
   B. Jacques Lacan’s “The Mirror Stage . . . ”
   C. Cleanth Brooks’s “Keats’s Sylvan Historian”
   D. Edward Said’s Orientalism

4. Arnold summarises the rule of English criticism in one word, in The Function Of Criticism. What is the word ?

   A. Disintrestedness
   B. Intresedness
   C. Purification
   D. Civilization

5. What is the difference between traditional literary criticism and post-New Criticism literary theory ?

   A. Traditional literary criticism is mainly focused on exploring gender issues.
   B. Traditional literary criticism only examines pre-20th-century literary texts.
   C. Traditional literary criticism focused on tracking influences and textual allusions and considering the historical contexts of literary texts.
   D. Traditional literary criticism attempted to consider the psychological aspects of literary texts.

6. A work of literary criticism that considers how social and economic power structures are depicted in a 19th-century English novel would be an example of which type of literary criticism ?

   A. Marxist criticism
   B. Reader-response criticism
   C. Psychoanalytic criticism
   D. New Criticism

7. Which is a common postcolonial critique of the West ?

   A. TheWest spends too much time trying to consider an Asian perspective.
   B. The West tends to look at Asian countries as individual units rather than lump them together.
   C. The West views matters through its own limited historical position.
   D. The West refuses to apply economic and political coercion to Asian writers.

8. Which is a common postcolonial critique of the West ?

   A. The West spends too much time trying to consider an Asian perspective.
   B. The West tends to look at Asian countries as individual units rather than lump them together.
   C. The West views matters through its own limited historical position.
   D. The West refuses to apply economic and political coercion to Asian writers.

9. Which of the following would be considered postcolonial novelists, defined as coming historically after the era of England’s large-scale imperialism ?

   A. Salman Rushdie
   B. Joseph Conrad
   C. Rabindranath Tagore
   D. John Ruskin

10. Which events in and after the 1960s contributed significantly to the decentralization of England from London to a more regional focus, ultimately also making way for a less homogenous vision of England and the popularity of postcolonial fiction ?

    A. Radio announcers were permitted to speak in regional dialects and multicultural accents.
    B. The Arts Council designated many of its resources to supporting regional arts councils.
    C. Regional radio and television stations appeared throughout the country.
    D. all of the above