Ünite Sınavı Soruları

Which of the following theories is coined by Edward Said?

Which of the below dichotomy pairs by Derrida is wrong?

Which of the following is described by Said as an act of geographical violence, a geographical violence employed against indigenous peoples and their land rights?

Which of the following is a result of the investigation of new investment and market opportunities for unused capital and non-consumable goods within the country?

• According to him, imperialism is a chain of foreign policies aimed at changing power relations between two or more states and destroying the status quo in their favor. He asserts it worth stressing not “what imperialism is” but rather “what imperialism is not”.
• Morgenthau, does not accept any attempt by states to increase their powers in the international arena as imperialism.
• He defines that imperialism is reversing the power relation between two or more states and rebuilds the status quo.
  Who is the scholar mentioned above?

Who was the first writer to use the concept of "imperialism"?

What is the "Sati Tradition" in India?

• Orientalism is the term used by him based on the assesments of the attitudes and perspectives of the Western scholars or Orientalists to legitimize colonial aggression by intellectually marginalized and dominated Eastern peoples.
• He also defines the term as: “Anyone who teaches, writes about, or researches the Orient, which applies whether the person is an anthropologist, sociologist, historian, or philologist either in its specific or its general aspects, is an Orientalist, and what he or she does is Orientalism.”
  Who is the scholar defined above?

• It criticizes the Western world due to their colonies in Asia and Africa.
• It is a critical point of view against colonial authority in terms of economic, social and political aspects based on modernist arguments.
  What is the concept defined above?

I. This theory posits a critical thinking toward modern and colonial world.

II. This theory urges to offer an alternative to the Eurocentric stance and notion of Western domination.

III. This theory challenges the Western ideas in areas such as literature, history and linguistic.

Which of the above is correct regarding the Post-Colonial Theory?

While indigenous people decolonized their society and land from colonial power, they were interested in physical survival, but this condition could not change colonial mentality, and they __________ their own lands but not their own mind.

Which of the following post-colonial scholar considers the colonial phenomenon as an opportunity for cultural exchange, and also thinks that subaltern can actually speak for themselves and this speech emerges as a mimicry and is hybrid?

• He is the pioneer of post-colonial theory in terms of both problematisation and terminology.
• According to him, it is necessary to play with the order of the new world created by the colonial man and to render his rules unworkable.
• His main claim is that it is the white man who created the black man and the black man himself who created the qualities of the black man.
• Which post-colonial scholar is mentioned above?

I. "Discourse on Colonialism" was a book that became one of the most fundamental post-colonial writing.

II. He advocates that the pseudo-humanism makes the colonialist uncivilised and brutal.

III. He uses the concept of Negro and being black frequently in his works.

Which of the above is correct regarding the life of Aime Cesaire?

• It is not possible for the colonists to be unaware of the illegitimacy of their position.
• Colonists demonstrate through their actions that they are aware that their welfare has actually been promoted through the misery of what they colonize.
• The concepts of “dual refusal” and “dual responsibility” showed up in his book “Portrait of the Colonial” (1957).
  Which post-colonial scholar had these arguments?

The post-colonial theory focuses on the ____________ dimension of exploitation and it examines the exploitation of mind, consciousness, language and religion of indigenous people.

Which theory urges to offer an alternative to the Eurocentric stance and notions of Western domination by challenging “western ideas” in all areas namely literature, history, linguistic, identity, gender?

Who is the writer of the books! Black Skin, White Masks” (1952) and “The Wretched of the Earth” on which considered to be the first basis of post-colonial theory is generally be based? 

Modernist thoughts claim that there is only one objective reality and excludes the other perspectives.

According to the statement above, which of the followings is modernist thought expected to exclude?