Postcolonial Theory
This concept represents a group of people as "inferior, negative, savage, or evil."
What is the Demonic Other?
This is the belief in and desire for equality between all genders.
What is feminism?
This word tells us in a few words what the story is about / is the focus of the plot.
What is the topic?
The date of the final exam for this course.
What is A: June 18 or B: June 19?
The number of cards in a standard deck of playing cards.
What is 52?
This concept plays with the idea of homeland, and can refer to forced or voluntary movement.
What is diaspora?
A simplified, standardized conception or image invested with special meaning and held in common by members of a group.
What is a stereotype?
This concept/tool helps us find meaning in stories that we likely wouldn’t have noticed otherwise.
What is literary theory?
Your Summative due date.
What is June 10?
This is the name for the plastic or metal tube found on the ends of shoelaces.
What is an aglet?
This concept concerns the idea of a "third space" that navigates the space between two cultures (like a colonizer culture and a traditional culture).
What is hybridity or syncretism?
Depicts the world from a heterosexual and male perspective. Often used in cinematic theory.
What is the male gaze?
This concept explains what the text is telling us about a topic in a novel.
What is theme?
The two films/shows we watched to discuss literary theory and theme.
What are Bluey and Shrek?
This Italian town is the setting for Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.
What is Verona?
This concept refers to a duality of experience, or an internal conflict between how one might see themselves and how others see them.
What is double consciousness?
Where female characters are binaries, and either good ("angels") or bad ("crazy")?
What is the female dichotomy?
This is the main idea of a piece of writing.
What is a thesis?
These are the people whose traditional land we are on.
This animal is the official symbol for Canada.
What is the beaver?
This word acknowledges how some people may experience multiple overlapping forms of discrimination (eg. Indigenous women).
What is intersectionality?
An idea that a woman’s traditional place is within the home while men live in the public sphere of work.
What is domesticity?
This acronym explains how to formulate your analysis in your body paragraphs.
What is SEE (statement, example, explanation) or CER (claim, evidence, reasoning)?
The full and proper name of this course.
What is English: Understanding Contemporary First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Voices?
This daily game asks you to match 16 words into groups of four.
What is Connections?