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GATE 2021 XH2 – Question 40

Critical Theories and Intellectual Traditions · Theoretical Paradigms: Structuralism, Marxism, feminism, existentialism, poststructuralism, modernism, postmodernism, new historicism, postcolonialism, posthumanism · 1 mark · Multiple select

Which novelist combines feminist concerns with magical realism? Select all that apply.

  1. Virginia Woolf
  2. Toni Morrison
  3. Kamala Markandaya
  4. Svetlana Alexievich

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Correct answer: (B) Toni Morrison

Explanation

Morrison combines women’s histories, racial oppression, memory and supernatural presences, notably in Beloved, giving B. Woolf’s major association is modernism, Markandaya’s is social realism, and Alexievich’s documentary polyphony. This is an MSQ with one keyed selection, not a reason to change its type to MCQ.

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