¡Descarga RESPUESTAS EXAMEN INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH-SPEAKING COUNTRIES y más Apuntes en PDF de Literatura inglesa solo en Docsity! What postcolonial term can we use to describe the image attached? A. Ethnocentrism B. Neocolonialism C. Hybridity D. Exoticism Bhabha's description of the colonial belief that "the black is both savage and yet the most obedient and dignified of servants" is one example of colonial A. ambivalence B. civility C. reform D. domination Which one of the following boundary-constructing processes is not necessarily implicit in ethnicity, according to Barth? A. cultural B. territorial C. social D. moral E. aesthetic F. mental What feeling on the part of the colonizers does the following quotation describe: "the colonizer was haunted by the image of the native [...] the European required that his existence be acknowledged by an entity whose full humanity he refused to accept"? A. perceived moral superiority B. fear of perceived strangeness C. uncertainty The view that we are all ethnic is the most common one in our society. TRUE One of the paradoxes of colonialism was that while the indigenous lands were occupied in the name of civilization, Europeans believed that they could never become fully civilized. TRUE The British Empire is made up of autonomous communities within the British Empire, equal in status, in no way subordinate one to another, though united by a common allegiance to the Crown. What does the following quotation mean: "nineteenth-century imperial projects required mechanisms of self-legitimation"? A. The colonial authorities had to find believable reasons to justify the violence of invasion and occupation. B. The presence of indigenous peoples was erased from many descriptions of the land they occupied. What post-colonial concept did Ngugi wa Thiong'o develop in his 1986 book? Decolonising the mind. Middle Passage was the voyage from Europe to Africa with manufactured goods, from Africa to the American Continent with slaves, and back to Europe with raw materials such as cotton (16th-19th c). Europe's arbitrary post-colonial borders left Africans gathered into countries that don't represent their heritage, a contradiction that still troubles them today. This is an example, of… A. Eurocentricity B. Assimilation C. Ethnocentrism D. Worlding WASP stands for White Anglo-Saxon Protestant The development of multiple literary and spoken Englishes, which illustrates the fecundity of postcolonial adaptation, requires that one metropolitan English is no longer dominant over other Englishes. TRUE According to professor Chinua Achebe, the kingdoms of Ghana, of Mali, of Songhai, of Kanem were as spectacular as anything that Europe had to show before colonisation started. TRUE Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, and Nuruddin Farah are native african writers diversity in colonial writing, the fact that all evidence of cross-racial relationships are wiped out is a sign of the dominant fear of miscegenation Bhabha's concept of 'mimicry' involves: (YOU MUST CHOOSE 2 OPTIONS) A. Colonial objectivity. B. Both resemblance and menace (ambivalence). C. A strategy of colonial reform, regulation and disciple of the Other. D. Teaching the colonized how to become equal citizens within the British Empire. What can societies do in order to allow woman as subaltern to speak, according to Spivak? A. We cannot do anything. B. We need to decolonize our minds and "question the unquestioned muting of the subaltern woman". C. It is enough with the space that intellectuals are making for her to speak. movements, college students, etc.) that both criticize globalization as harmful and make use of some of its tools, such as the Internet, to organize coordinated protests and demonstrations against it. Globalization from below The view that we are all ethnic is the most common one in our society. FALSE The characterization of colonized people as secondary, abject, weak, feminine, and other to Europe, and in particular to England was .................... in British colonialist writing. A. uncommon B. widespread C. only sometimes present According to Said,Orientalism is a distribution of geopolitical awareness into aesthetic, scholarly, economic, sociological, historical, and philological texts; it is an elaboration not only of a basic geographical distinction [...] but also of a whole series of interests". Higgins claims that, according to what he has been able to observe, NSs consider that the varieties of English used in outer-circle countries A. are as valid as the varieties of English used in the inner-circle countries. B. are considered native varieties, but they carry a lower prestige. C. are not considered native varieties According to Ngugi wa Thiong'o, the young generation of African writers are generally quite free in taking the world as their own. false In the English language, A. Since the mid 19th century 'ethnic' has the sense of 'peculiar to a race or nation B. 14th - 19th centuries a ethnic had the sense of heathen (pagan, uncivilized and uncultured) The English language has retained the pagan memory of 'ethnic' as other.FALSE Bhabha claims that 'fixity' is what the ideological construction of otherness is mainly based on. What does 'fixity' involve? (YOU MUST CHOOSE 2 OPTIONS) A. Empirical proof and logical constructions of the colonized peoples. B. The constant repetition of those stereotypes. C. True accounts of the colonized peoples D. Unchanging stereotypes regarding the colonized peoples. The common view among scholars, which Sollors agrees with, is that race is an important category within ethnicity. FALSE The degree of legitimacy of language ownership is dependent on social factors and by social class, race, GENDER/ RELIGION access to education, degree of participation in society, and variety of English used. One of the mechanisms of self-legitimation was to represent colonization as the survival of the NATIVES That is, those best at imposing their power were believed to be deserving of hegemony. Ngugi wa Thiong'o belives that English does no longer contain colonial values contain expression or perpetuate a cultural inferiority or complexes. TRUE The image attach is an example of neocolonialism RACE ETHNICITY
