Poststructuralism: Central Texts Quiz
Think you’ve got your head wrapped around Poststructuralism? Put your knowledge to
the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. Jacques Derrida cannonballed into the American academy with this paper, in 1966:
"The Purveyor of Truth"
"Seminar on 'The Purloined Letter'"
"Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences"
"Can the Subaltern Speak?"
Q. This 1982 text by a prominent American deconstructionist is a great example of how Jacques Derrida's theories can be used to interpret classic lit from Proust to Rilke:
Paul de Man's Allegories of Reading
Michel Foucault's History of Sexuality
Paul de Man's Discipline and Punish
Roland Barthes's S/Z
Q. Homi Bhabha's essay "The Commitment to Theory" is:
a critique of poststructuralist theory's élitism
an account of his own upbringing
a defense of poststructuralist theory's political value
a marriage vow to the academy
Q. Jacques Derrida's Of Grammatology explains:
his theory of "writing"
his issues with Jacques Lacan
his plan for world domination
the grammar of modern Klingon
Q. Michel Foucault's History of Sexuality argues that:
society is carceral
the Victorians were a bunch of prudes
discourse defines individual identities
sexuality shouldn't be discussed in public