Critical Anthology

Question 1

central marxist ideas

Answer 1

people’s socio-economic circumstances, which condition them: we think and behave in certain ways because we have to.
Although we like to think that we live in a world of choices, this idea of choice is an illusion - our choices are much more limited than we pretend.

Question 2

Economy

H Beterns

Marxism

Answer 2

‘the way we think and the way we experience the world is wholly or largely conditioned by the way the economy is organised.’

Question 3

Capitalism

H Beterns

Marxism

Answer 3

• ‘What they (the workers) do not know is how capitalism alienates them from themselves by seeing them in terms of production - …as objects rather than human beings.’
• ‘Capitalism turns people into things, it reifies them.’

Question 4

Gender

H Bertens

Feminism

Answer 4

• Gender has to do not with how females (and males) really are, but with the way a given culture or subculture sees them, how they are culturally constructed.’
• ‘To say that women are naturally timid, or sweet , or intuitive, or dependent, or self-pitying, is to construct a role for them.’
  ‘The same holds for masculinity with its connotations of strength, rationality, stoicism and self reliance.’

Question 5

J. Ruffner Grieneisen

Post Colonial

Answer 5

“Writers from colonised countries attempt to articulate and even celebrate their cultural identities and reclaim them from the colonizers.”

Question 6

they develop…

P Barry

Post Colonial

Answer 6

…a perspective, whereby states of marginality, plurality and percieved “Otherness” are seen as sources of energy and potential change.

Question 7

premise

C Glotfelty

Eco Critical

Answer 7

human culture is connected to the physical world, affecting it and affected by it.