Historicism

What does the text reveal about the problematics of post-colonial identity, including the relationship between personal and cultural identity and such issues as double consciousness and hybridity?

Formalism: Typical questions: How does the work use imagery to develop its own symbols? (i.e. making a certain road stand for death by constant association) How do paradox, irony, ambiguity, and/or tension work in the text? How does the author resolve (or not resolve) apparent contradictions within the work? What does the form of the […]

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