Unit 5. terms

Name:- Zala Krutikaba. DRoll No.:- 15

Sem :- 32014-2015

Paper :-The Postcolonial Literature

Topic :- Unit-5 : Select Termssubmitted to :- Smt. S.B. Gardi

Department of EnglishM.K Bhavnagar University

Introduction

Post colonial in literature includes the study of theory and literature as it relates to the colonizer-colonized experience. Post-colonial literature is a study of the effects of colonialism on cultures and societies. It shows how European nations controlled “Third world” cultures .

Diaspora

Movement of

“Migration”

Dispersion or

Scattering Far from

“Homeland”

Diaspora

People settled

more than one

location

Some communiti

es are strong

political power.

Thought of return , relation

with other community

Lack of assimilatio

n

Base on Imperialis

m and labor

migration.

Diaspora is related with the history of Jews.

Jews living outside Israel. The dispersion of Jews in 60th cent.

B.C. , when they were exiled to Babylonia until the present time.

“Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools.” ― Salman Rushdie

Commonwealth

Commonwealth is a tradition English term for a political community founded for the common good. Commonwealth highlights the similarities that exits among different literature in English.

Common weal

Well being

Advantages

Public welfare

General good

Republic

“All life is linked together in such a way that no part of the chain is unimportant. Frequently, upon the action of some of these minute beings depends the material success or failure of a great commonwealth.”  - John Henry Comstock