ere e aS te on atin Cole aul orton dine nee Ba ncaa iat bones | en amen. i ica | {tin eon esursin Toy ta robe) cde eco #05 ae ot Ol 4 ol (eos renpucetas te by (0.0 menos 0.25. PART ONE Read the following extract carefully and indicate the correct answer (a = TRUE, b = FALSE) according to the excerpt or the complete text it's been taken from. I will outline some of the principles that | think a Black feminist critic could use. Beginning with a primary commitment to exploring how both sexual and racial politics and Black and female identity are inextricable elements in Black women’s writings, she would also work from the assumption that Black women writers constitute an identifiable literary tradition. The breadth of her familiarity with these writers would have shown her that not only is theirs a verifiable historical tradition that parallels in time the tradition of Black men and white women writing in this country, but that thematically, stylistically, aesthetically, and conceptually Black women writers manifest common approaches to the act of creating literature as a direct result of the specific political, social, and economic experience they have been obliged to share. ‘The author of the excerpt is Adrienne Rich. ab 2. The text looks for inclusion in the African American and white women’s literary tradition ab 3. The fragment highlights the specificities related to literary creation originated from the interrelation between ethnicity and gender om ab 4. The article was originally a reaction to Feminist critics’ discrimination. ab PART TWO Read the following extracts -literary texts (1) and (2}- and then indicate the right answer to the questions below each (a, b or c). Literary text (1) The earth seemed unearthly. We are accustomed to look upon the shackled form of a conquered monster, but there—there you could look at a thing monstrous and free. It was unearthly, and the men were—No, they were not inhuman. Well, you know, that was the worst of it—this suspicion of their not being inhuman. It would come slowly to one. They howled and leaped, and spun, and made horrid faces; but what thrilled you was just the thought of their humanity—like yours—the thought of your remote kinship with this wild and passionate uproar. Ugly. Yes, it was ugly enough; but if you were man enough you would admit to yourself that there was in you just the faintest trace of response to the terrible frankness of that noise, a dim suspicion of there being a meaning in it which you—you so remote from the night of first ages—could comprehend.5. The narrator of this extract is called: a. Marven b. Marlow c. Kurtz 6. The expression “No, they were not inhuman” in line 3 refers to a. The lions they were hunting b. African inhabitants c. The Indian tribe they approached 7. The implied addressee “you” in the narration includes: a. The reader as part of the inhabitants of the explored land b. The reader as a white European explorer c. The reader as the narrator's companion in the journey 8. This specific critic has reread this work from a postcolonial perspective: a. Edward Said b. Chinua Achebe cc. Homi Bhabha Literary text (2) | said to myself: three days and you'll be seven years old Iwas saying it to stop the sensation of falling off the round, turning world into cold, blue-black space. But | felt: you are an /, you are an Elizabeth, you are one of them. Why should you be one, too? I scarcely dared to look to see what it was | was. I gave a sidelong glance —I couldn't look any higher— at shadowy gray knees, trousers and skirts and boots and different pairs of hands lying under the lamps. 9. This excerpt belongs to the poem: a. “12 O'Clock News” b. “Exchanging Hats” c. “The Waiting Room”Apellidos y nombre .. DNI.... Centro asociado. 410. What was the thing in front of her the poetic voice “scarcely dared to look” in line 117: a. People's faces b. Amagazine c. The dim light 11. The sensation of “falling off" is happening at: a. The dentist b. The street c. The church 12. The poetic voice is describing a revelatory moment: a. About discovering her ethnic identity b. About coming to terms with her femininity c. About her consciousness as a child and an individual PART THREE Read the following definitions and provide a matching term. GIVE IN ONLY THIS PAGE (make sure your name is on it) AND THE HOJA DE LECTURA OPTICA! 13. The direct political control of one country or society by another and refers first of all to historical episodes, like the long history of British rule in India 14. A term that indicates the struggle of women authors to face the uneasiness of lacking female models in literary history on which to support their right to write within a masculinist literary tradition 15. A narrative in which the agents and action, and sometimes the setting, are designed to make sense on the “literal” level of signification and also to signify a second, more abstract order of agents, concepts and event, implying a political, historical or ideological level 16. Akind of criticism initiated by Greenblatt that suggests a method based on the parallel reading of literary and non-literary texts, usually of the same historical period, which are given equal weight.