Postcolonial Literature Unit Notes

True or false: Historicity refers to fiction.

• True

• False

True or false: Intersectionality refers to ONE form of discrimination.

• True

• False

Diegesis refers to narrative telling through ____________.

• History

• Nonfiction

• Fiction

• All of the other answers are correct.

__________ refers to the influence exerted by a dominant group.

• Historicity

• Intersectionality

• Hegemony

• Diegesis

Hegemony can include ____________ influence.

• social or cultural

• ideological

• economic

• All of the other answers are correct.

Historicity includes ___________ on a person, events, etc.

• Imagined (fictional) events

• Unproven ideas

• Actual facts

True or false: Hegemony allows the subordinate group to maintain its own social, cultural, ideological, or economic influence.

• True

• False

Which of the following would be the closest example of diegesis?

• The Autobiography of Frederick Douglass

• the film The Lion King

• the film Malcolm X

• journal entries from a soldier at war

Which is the closest example of historicity?

• Beowulf

• the legend of King Arthur

• the Disney version of Pocahantas

• Columbus reached the New World in 1492.

What is an example of intersectionality from the examples below?

• Voting Democrat or Republican

• Being Christian in America

• Being a transgender racial minority in America

• Being an engineer in the Middle East