Postcolonial aspects in imaginary homeland
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Paper : The Post colonial Literature.Topic : Postcolonial aspects in Imaginary HomelandPrepared by : Avani DaveSem – 3Roll No: 02Department of EnglishMaharaja Krishnakumar Sinhji Bhavnagar University
Salman Rushdie : Born 19th June 1947 Ethnicity : Kashmiri Indian Citizenship : British Mirror of Nostalgia Literature – official facts and self- validating Indian- born British Writer Diaspora‘Indian’ outside India ! Past is a foreign Country -L.P.Hartley’s novel The Go-Between
Goldberg & Mc Cann
Stanley Webber
Silence
The Atmosphere of Menace
Pinteresque Effect
Knocking of the Door Knocking is threatening
Fear in the Play 1. Attenborough’s Gandhi
DeificationWhy should an Englishman want to Deify Gandhi ?Western psyche – Three broad headings
Exotic Impulse
• Christian longing for a ‘Leader’
Liberal conservati
ve political desire
Goldberg & Mc Cann
Stanley Webber
Silence
The Atmosphere of Menace
Pinteresque Effect
Knocking of the Door Knocking is threatening
Fear in the Play 2. Common wealth Literature do not Exist
‘Commonwealth literature’ it appears, is that body of writing created, I think, in English language by person who are not themselves white Britons, or Irish, or citizens of the United States of America’. Indian branch of English Literature Third world literature Hallmark of Indian Tradition
Goldberg & Mc Cann
Stanley Webber
Silence
The Atmosphere of Menace
Pinteresque Effect
Knocking of the Door Knocking is threatening
Fear in the Play3. Hobson and Jobson
The legendary dictionary of British IndiaSurprise reader by words like curry, pukka, cummerbund.Cash -> sanskrit karshaMacheen -> maha cheen, Great China Poggle -> PagalShyamala -> Shimla
Goldberg & Mc Cann
Stanley Webber
Silence
The Atmosphere of Menace
Pinteresque Effect
Knocking of the Door Knocking is threatening
Fear in the Play4. The New Empire within Britain
British people are bias – select arrivalStereotype category given to individualBlack people are problemConcept of GhettoRole of ConfidenceRealism prevails – prejudice Between White & Black
Our People
Other People
Individual
error
collective error
