UGC NTA NET/JRF Exam. December 2021/June 2022 ENGLISH (Shift-II)

The Postcolonial critics who used the ideas of Lacan, Foucault and Derrida while critiquing 'Euro-centrism' were - Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Chakravarty Spivak, Abdul Jan Mohammad and Edward Said. 'Eurocentrism' is the discourse that emphasizes European concerns, culture and values at the expense of others. It uses Europe as a cultural rather that a cartographical expression, which incorporates the so called 'West', the Western Europe and North America. It investigates the relation between humans and the natural world in literature, and deals with how environmental issues, cultural issues concerning the environment and attitudes towards nature and presented and analyzed.
Hence option (a) is correct.

The correct statements among all are B, C and D only. Dramatic Monologue was fully exposited (used in large numbers) by the nineteenth century poets eg; Tennyson's "Ulysses" (1842), Robert Browing's My Last Duchess, 'Porphyria's Lovers' etc. Other writers from 20th century also used this poetic form greatly. Some of term are: His (Hilda Doolittle), Amy Lowell, Robert Frost, EA. Robinson, Ezra Pound, Robert Lowell. The best known modern instance is T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1915). Robert Langbaum's 'The Poetry of Experience' outlines a discussion on dramatic monologue.
Dramatic Monologue is a literary from where the writer takes on the voice of a character and speaks through them. Although it is used in theater and prose yet the term most presently used in poetry; it is a stanza form. Hence, the correct answer is option (b).

The protagonist of "The Mill on the Floss", Maggie Tulliver is a cleaver and impetuses child. This novel is about the relationship between a brother and sister, Tom and Maggie Tulliver, who live in a mill. Being the most autobiographical novel of George Eliot, it fosses on young woman's (maggie) struggle for growth and independence against the restraints of small country life. Hence, the correct answer is option (b).

The aboriginal Australian poet, Oodgeroo Noonuccal, in her poem "We are going" (1964)| examines the impact of colonial conquest on aboriginal Australians with reference of Loos of "Bara ground", "Loss of aboriginal identity" and "Loss of primitive culture". It is a powerful poem about the struggles of Aboriginal Australians in the face of British Colonialism. By this poem, Oodgeroo Noonuccal highlights the struggle of Aboriginal Australian tribes as they attempt to preserve their land, culture, and history. Hence, the correct answer is option (a).

Gaiutra Bahadur is a Guyanese American writer best known for 'Coolie Women: The Odyssey of Indenture,' which was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize in 2014. An essayist, critic and journalist, Gaiutra Bahadur was born in Guyana and emigrated as a child (about six years old) to Jersey City, New Jersey, where she currently lives and teaches writing and Journalism as an associate professor in the Department of Arts, Culture and Media at Rutgers University in Newark. Hence, the correct answer is option (d).

The films that were based on Booker winning novels are "Life of Pi" and "The Remains of the Day" with same name. Yann Martel's "Life of Pi" (2001) tells the magical story of young Indian Pi Patel, who survives harrowing shipwreck and months in a lifeboat with a large Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. Martel's novel was adopted as a 2012 film directed by AngLee.
Kazuo Ishiguro's "The Remains of the Day" (1989) won the Booker Prize in 1989. It was adopted as a film with the same name in 1993 starring Anthomy Hopkins and Emma Thompson.
Anna Burns' Milkman (2018), Paul Beatty's the sellout (2015), Kiran Desai's "The Inheritance of Loss" (2006) are Booker winning novels but they have not been adopted in Films. Hence, the correct answer is option (b).

'Bel Patra' (1987) is a short story by the Booker Prize winner Geetanjali Shree. It was her first story, published in literary megazin "Hans". Khalijagaj Hamar Shahar Us Baras (1998), Mai (2000) are novels written by Shree 'Mai' was shortlisted for Crossword Booker Award in 2001 will her novel 'Ret Samadhi' (Tomb of Sead [English translation by Dasiy rockwell ]) (2018) won International Booker Prize in 2022.
Hence, the correct answer is option (c).

Among the given books, "The Continent of Circe" (1965), A Passage to England (1959), and "The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian" (1951) are written by Nirad C. Chaudhuri. He was a Bengali (Indian) author and scholar who was opposed to the withdrawal of British colonial rule from Indian Subcontinent and Subsequent rejection of Western culture in independent India.
'The Continent of Circe' deals with the Indian Society from a Socio-psychological perspective, commenting on Hindu society from prehistory to modern times.
"A Passage to England" was an account of brief, five weeks first visit to England. "The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian" is an autobiography of Nirad C. Chaudhuri. "The Principal Upanishads" (1953) is a book written by Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. Hence, the correct answer is option (c).

Hermann Hesse's "Siddhartha" (in German, Siddhartha : Eine Indische Dichtung) was originally written in German and published in 1922. It was published in the United States in 1951 and became influential during 1960s. It deals with the search of realization by a young man Siddharatha. Hence, the correct answer is option (d).

The given statements regarding French Revolution are absolutely correct according to Michel Foucault.
Foucault's 'The Birth of the Clinic : An Archaeology of Medical Perception' (French, Naissance de la clinigue Une archeology due regard medical), (1963). presents the development of the clinic, the teaching hospital, as a medical institution, identities and describes the concept of "the medical gare", and epistemic re-organisation of the research structure of medicine in the production of medical knowledge, at the end of 18th century.
In the last of 18th century, when the French (1789-1799) and American (1775-1783) revolutions took place, at that time scientific discourse established medical use and importance of clinic.
The French Revolution creåted grounds for the birth of the clinic. The Doctors started caring for the body of the patients the way priests cured for the soul of the sinners. Hence, the correct answer is option (a).