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This concept partly titles a poem whose speaker notes that Jane will never find a job since she stays on Aunt Fan’s couch reading a “love-story book” all day; in that poem, the speaker’s “heart gwine burs” while telling “miss Mattie” about “joyful news.” An essay collection titled for the reverse of this concept notes that “communication creates culture” and denounces a “cultural bomb.” A poem by Louise Bennett Coverley is titled for this process “in Reverse.” Undoing this process titles an essay collection that details its author’s time in jail after writing I Will Marry When I Want (10[2])and defends abandoning English for Gikuyu. (10[1])An essay collection by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o partly titled for “the mind” describes the reversal of, for 10 points, what process in which imperial nations take control over foreign territories? ■END■

ANSWER: colonization [accept decolonization; or word forms such as colonizing or colonialism; accept Colonization in Reverse or Decolonising the Mind]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Nathaniel HullBerkeley AStanford C9810
Andrew ZengStanford BBerkeley C9810
Anuttam RamjiBerkeley BStanford A10410

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