Which of the following statements are true?
- A. The Empire Writes Back is a non-fictional work on postcolonialism.
- B. Black Skin, White Masks is a fictional narrative about a protagonist.
- C. A Critique of Postcolonial Reason is by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.
- D. Said's autobiography is titled In Place.
- E. Postcolonialism addresses questions that remain after the colonisers have left.
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Correct answer: A. (A), (C) and (E) only
Explanation
Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks (1952) is psychoanalytic non-fiction, and Said's memoir is Out of Place (1999). Spivak's Critique appeared in 1999.
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