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REE 301 Test 2 ReviewBriefly explain how I Served the King of England can be read as a national allegory. -
ANS--Dite can be seen as a personification of Czechoslovakia itself: it starts as this little
new country created after WW1 and then faces many political struggles with the country
being occupied by Nazi Germany and then eventually the communist after WW2
-These historical moments are reflected in Dite's struggles throughout the whole book
as he is trying to find his place which can speak to the Czech experience like how Dite
lost everything when Communism happened similarly to how when the whole country
was occupied by Communism they lost everything
Give the date of the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. - ANS-August 20, 1968
Give the year in which martial law was imposed in Poland. - ANS-1981
Give the year of the fall of the Berlin Wall? - ANS-1989
Give the year of the Hungarian Revolution. - ANS-1956
How does Slavenka Drakulić in How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed
depict East European women in socialism? What is a potential criticism of this
depiction? - ANS-Depiction:
-Depicts EE women as resilient through the shortages and lack of consumerism
-this depicts equating freedom w consumer choice as she talks a lot about how
products like food and certain cosmetics weren't available
-depicts that the economy is in a really difficult situation that really falls upon women
Critique:
-Critiques life as almost unbearable and this endless torment of disappointment, life
couldn't have always been that bad and she could have maybe been playing it up for a
Western audience
-Not every women had that experience, she kind of erases the diversity of women in
EE
How is the Roma population "racialized" in Albania? Provide two examples and/or
parallels with the US context. - ANS--The Roma are seen as "black" by Albanians since
they are of darker complexion and are culturally distinct. This also goes for Albanias
who see themselves as higher and the Roma as lower.
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