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Unit 4 · Literary Criticism and Theory English · December 2023 (Rescheduled)

Which of the following statements are true?

  1. A. The Empire Writes Back is a non-fictional work on postcolonialism.
  2. B. Black Skin, White Masks is a fictional narrative about a protagonist.
  3. C. A Critique of Postcolonial Reason is by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.
  4. D. Said's autobiography is titled In Place.
  5. 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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