Three literary terms

Diaspora

Feminism

New creticism

Greek word diaspora

Love for nation and ‘sense of place’

Home land become protagonist

Lamentation of losing home land and language

Collective memory and myth about their original homeland, location and history of the place.

• As a distinctive and concerted approach to literature, feminist criticism was not inaugurated until late in the 1960

• Struggle for the recognition of women's culture roles and achievements

• Women’s social and political rights.• Reading of the work with the feministic

approach.

Only talks about work of art . Biography of writer is not necessary . The new critique do verbal study of text. Close reading of the poem and literary work. Free from any kind of boundaries for example, name of poet or writer. Poem never has a meaning.

MULIBRITY BY SUJATA BHATTI have thought so much about the girlwho gathered cow-dung in a wide, round basketalong the main road passing by our houseand the Radhavallabh temple in Maninagar.I have thought so much about the way she

moved her hands and her waistand the smell of cow-dung and road-dust and wet canna lilies,the smell of monkey breath and freshly washed clothesand the dust from crows’ wings which smells different –and again the smell of cow-dung as the girl scoops it up, all these smells surrounding me separatelyand simultaneously – I have thought so muchbut have been unwilling to use her for a metaphor,for a nice image – but most of all unwillingto forget her or to explain to anyone the greatness and the power glistening through her cheekboneseach time she found a particularly promisingmound of dung –

Along The Road by Robert B Hamilton

I walk a mile with pleasure;

She chatted all the way,

But left me none the wiser

For all she had to say.

I walk a mile with sorrow

And ne’er a word said she;

But oh, the things I learned from her

When sorrow walked with me!