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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 (10[1])Coverley is titled for this process “in Reverse.” Undoing this process titles (-5[1])an essay collection that details its author’s time in jail after writing I Will Marry When I Want and defends abandoning English for Gikuyu. An essay collection by Ngũgĩ (10[1])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? (10[1])■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
Raymond WangCornell ABinghamton6810
Andrew HellerCornell CCornell B80-5
Cade ReinbergerRIT BRIT A10910
Rosa XiaCornell BCornell C13410

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