NTA UGC NET/JRF Exam. December 2023 ENGLISH

Imagined Communities is a book written by Benedict Anderson and it is a conception to analyze nationalism, Nation and Narration is by Homi К. Bhabha renowned post-colonial writer while Culture and Imperialism is written by Edward Said, a collection of essays that trace the connection between imperialism and culture throughout the 18th, 19th and 20th century. • The Wretched of the Earth is written by Frantz Fanon, in which he provides a psychoanalysis of the dehumanizing effects of colonization.
Hence, option(c) is correct.

Homi K. Bhabha's theorization of Nation functions as :
• Nationalist representation is defined by ambivalence where ambivalence is a psychological conflict between opposing evaluations, often experienced as being torn between alternatives.
Hence, option (c) is correct.

Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot symbolizes the absurdity of existence, the purposelessness of life and how suffering increase with the passage of time the character Godot symbolizes the salvation that religion promises but which never comes just as Godot never actually comes to Vladimir and Estragon. Hence, option (d) is correct answer.

In 1949, the term Postmodernism was used to describe a dissatisfaction with modern architecture. In this Era, parody was replaced by pastiche. Pastiche is a literary or artistic work that imitates the style of previous work (imitation of different works and put these together to invent something new) for example : T.S. Eliot borrowed contents From Ritual to Romance The Golden Bowl for Vedas and used it in The Waste Land.
Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulations is a seminal Post-Modern text. Hence, option (a) is correct.

Northern Aboriginal Australians can trace much as 11% of their genomes to trace as who reached the island around 4,000 years ago from India and they are called Red Indians while a Creole is a language that comes from a simplified version of another language or the mixture of two or more language and it serves as the native language of a speech community.
Hence, option(d) is correct.

Mikhail Bakhtin wrote an essay Discourse in the Novel, that discusses that the novel is constituted by a multiplicity of divergent and contending social voices. The essay is about his philosophy of language. Hence, option (b) is correct.

Julia Kristeva described Chora as a non-expressive totality formed by drives and their stases in a morality that is as full of movement as it is regulated and it has no fixed identity.
Hence, option (b) is correct answer.

If we judge all these given statements on the basis of psychoanalytical theory and Reader-Response theory, option (a) will be correct answer.

Charles Dickens' novel A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is set in the late 18th century against the background of the French Revolution in London and Paris. It was the second historical novel of Dickens, where the turmoil and chaotic situations of France during the French Revolution have been depicted. Hence, the correct answer is option(c).