Question
Ten daughters, who are collectively known as “The Perfect Nine”, are matched up with 99 potential suitors in a 2020 epic in this language. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this language, which one author announced he would only write in to address the “cultural bomb” of English in Decolonizing the Mind.
ANSWER: Gikuyu
[10e] In contrast with Ngugi, this other author claimed that Nigeria’s national literature was “literature written in English.” He also wrote Things Fall Apart.
ANSWER: Chinua Achebe
[10h] This postcolonial scholar praised Ngũgĩ’s “unmarked modernity” while they were at the University of Iowa in the 60s. This thinker also examined the lack of reliable information about the practice of sati in another essay.
ANSWER: Gayatri Spivak (that essay is “Can the Subaltern Speak?”)
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Summary
| 2024 Booster Shot (Waterloo) | 02/23/2024 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Data
| Toronto Sprout | Toronto cDNA | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |