GATE 2021 XH2 – Question 51

Critical Theories and Intellectual Traditions · Theoretical Paradigms: Structuralism, Marxism, feminism, existentialism, poststructuralism, modernism, postmodernism, new historicism, postcolonialism, posthumanism · 2 marks · Multiple choice

O.V.Vijayan’s The Legends of Khasak is described through its remote village setting in the mid-twentieth century and an ecosystem of living and nonliving things saturated with dreams and legends. Which Bakhtinian concept best fits this analysis?

Chronotope
Dialogism
Carnivalesque
Polyphony

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Correct answer: (A) Chronotope

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A chronotope concerns the interconnection of time and space that organises narrative experience. The description foregrounds a particular historical time and richly imagined place, so A. Dialogism and polyphony concern relations among voices, while the carnivalesque concerns forms of inversion and festive disruption not specified here.

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