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 going beyond Said/Spivak/Bhabha/Fanon — Césaire’s Négritude, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities, and the Subaltern Studies Group.

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Aimé Césaire's Discourse on Colonialism (1950) is a foundational text of:

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