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GATE 2022 XH2 (English) – Question 49

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

“Postcolonial perspectives emerge from the colonial testimony of Third World countries and the discourses of ‘minorities’ within the geopolitical divisions of East and West, North and South. They intervene in those ideological discourses of modernity that attempt to give a hegemonic ‘normality’ to the uneven development and the differential, often disadvantaged, histories of nations, races, communities, people.”
The above commentary on the postcolonial perspective has been extracted from which of the following?

  1. Edward Said’s Orientalism
  2. Homi K Bhabha’s The Location of Culture
  3. Leela Gandhi’s Postcolonial Theory
  4. Bill Ashcroft et al., eds. The Post-colonial Studies Reader

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Correct answer: (B) Homi K Bhabha’s The Location of Culture

Explanation

These are the opening lines of the Introduction to Bhabha's The Location of Culture.