What is Edward Said's Orientalism?

Said's Orientalism (1978) analyses how Western discourse constructs the Orient as inferior, exotic, and Other — a body of knowledge inseparable from Western imperial power over Eastern peoples.

What is Bhabha's concept of mimicry?

Colonial mimicry describes the colonised subject's ambivalent approximation of the coloniser — 'almost the same but not quite' — which introduces a slippage that menaces colonial authority.

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Postcolonialism — UGC NET MCQs

25 past-paper pattern questions across all 5 UGC NET question types. Covers Said (Orientalism, contrapuntal reading), Spivak (subaltern, strategic essentialism), Bhabha (mimicry, hybridity, Third Space), Fanon, Ngugi, Achebe.

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Postcolonialism — UGC NET MCQs

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Edward Said's Orientalism (1978) argues that 'Orientalism' is:

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