Postwar and Postcolonial Literature, 1945–1968 (Volume F)

Cold War

de-Stalinization

Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution

Decolonization

Decolonization (continued)

Green Revolution

Writers

Civil Rights Movement: United States

• intersection of oral and written forms

• hybridity

• globalization

• rethinking “homeland”

• dismantling “cultural uniqueness”

• “neorealism”

Elements of Style

• limits of literature

• problems with meaning

• instability of language

• “metafiction” and “metatheater”

Postmodernism

The Cold War pitted which two superpowers?

a. the Soviet Union and Chinab. China and the United Statesc. the United States and the Soviet Uniond. the United States and Vietnam

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What revolution of the 1960s and 1970s improved agricultural methods and made it possible to feed ever-increasing populations?

a. the Cultural Revolutionb. the Eco Revolutionc. the Agricultural Revolutiond. the Green Revolution

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Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children discusses the decolonization of which countries?

a. Pakistan and Indiab. North and South Koreac. Rhodesia and Zimbabwed. Israel and Palestine

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The Supreme Court decision in the United States, Brown v. Board of Education had what effect?

a. It ended public school fundingb. It ended public transportation segregationc. It ended public school segregationd. It ended standardized testing

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Postcolonial writers tend to favor which of the following?

a. homogeneityb. experimentationc. metafictiond. hybridity

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