Deck 2: Literary and Cultural Studies: Part B

Question 1

Who was the leader of Dravida Munneta Kazhakam?

A)ev ramaswami naikar
B)george fernandes
C)vk krisna menon
D)chandrik kumaratunge

Answer 1

ev ramaswami naikar

Question 2

Who edited the first volume of Subaltern Studies?

A)tt sree kumar
B)ranajith guhe
C)ijas ahammed
D)gayathri spivak

Answer 2

ranajith guhe

Question 3

Who authored the book In Theory?

A)tt sree kumar
B)ranajith gune
C)ijas ahamed
D)gayathri spivak

Answer 3

ijas ahamed

Question 4

Towards Dalit Aesthetics is a book by

A)bama
B)saram kumar limbalai
C)omprakash valmiki
D)ismath chugthai

Question 5

Myth literature and African world is a book by

A)nelson mandela
B)wole soyinka
C)naipaul
D)rushdie

Question 6

A female homo sexual is called a

A)bisexual
B)transgender
C)lesbian
D)queer

Question 7

Who is the author of Coming Out?

A)henry miller
B)jidith butler
C)jeffrey week
D)sinfield

Question 8

Who wrote the book Orientalism?

A)edward said
B)gayatri chakravorty spivak
C)franz fanon
D)gandhi

Question 9

is a person, especially a man who enjoys dressing as a member of the opposite sex.

A)transsexual
B)transvestite
C)hermaphrodite
D)bisexual

Question 10

is a person who feels comfortable living as a member of the opposite sex.

A)queer
B)gay
C)transsexual
D)hetro sexual

Question 11

Who is the author of History of Sexuality?

A)derrida
B)foucault
C)henry miller
D)dh lawrence

Question 12

The term oriental and occidental mean and _respectively.

A)european and western
B)european and eastern
C)eastern and western
D)western and eastern

Question 13

Who wrote the book The Wretched of the Earth?

A)chinua achebe
B)wole soyinka
C)franz fanon
D)edward said

Question 14

The subtitle of the book The Empire Writes Back by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Hellen Tiffin is ?

A)theory and practice
B)theory in post colonial literatures
C)theory and practice in post colonial literatures
D)practice in post colonial literatures

Question 15

Who wrote the essay "Can the Subaltern Speak?"

A)gayatri chakravorty spivak
B)chinua achebe
C)wole soyinka
D)edward said

Question 16

Who wrote the book The Location of Culture?

A)gayatri chakravorty spivak
B)chinua achebe
C)raymond williams
D)homi j bhabha

Question 17

Interventions is an international journal of

A)post colonial studies
B)new historicism
C)new criticism
D)post modernism

Question 18

The books Culture and Society (1958) and theUses of Literacy (1958) which inaugurated movement are written by Raymond Williams and Richard Hoggart respectively.

A)cultural studies
B)post colonial studies
C)new historicism
D)deconstruction

Question 19

In which year Richard Hoggart established the Burmingham Centre of Contemporary Cultural Studies?

A)1946
B)1956
C)1967
D)1964

Question 20

Mythologies a precursor of modern cultural studies is written by

A)roland barthes
B)homi j bhabha
C)w b yeats
D)northrop frye

Question 21

Who used the term "cultural materialism" for the first time?

A)raymond williams
B)jonathan dollimore
C)alan sinfield
D)karl marx

Question 22

Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield the British cultural materialists jointly wrote the book Political Shakespeare(1985). Its subtitle is_

A)new essays in cultural materialism
B)essays in cultural materialism
C)cultural materialism : a reader
D)none of these

Question 23

Clifford Geertz, the new historicist used the term for the close analysis or "reading" of a particular social production or event to recover its meanings.

A)descriptions
B)thick descriptions
C)analysis
D)none of these

Question 24

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels jointly published Communist Manifesto in

A)1992
B)1990
C)1993
D)1991