Diaspora into imaginary homeland

Diaspora into imaginary homeland

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   Presented bySanjay A. Dharaiya  Paper no.11 The Post-Colonial Literature  Topic : Diaspora into The Imaginary Homelands.  Course : M.A. Sem 3  Email id : [email protected]  Submitted : S.B.Gardi Department of English MKBU
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   According tomeaning of Dictionary, “A Diaspora is a large group of people with a similar heritage or homeland who have since moved out to places all over the world.”  The term Diaspora taken from an ancient Greek. This word meaning is that "to move off about."  Diaspora has two chief reasons for responsible the happening that like as, diffusion and dissipation.
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   At atime of World War II the idea of Diaspora had multiplication to an extraordinary area. Everything happening for specific behind reason and event.  One of the reasons for Diaspora is that development was decolonization.  Decolonization also led to the removal and by force remigration of many groups like as especially those of Asian origin
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   There havebeen exiled in history as long as there times of wars, plagues and famines. But formal recognition by the UN brought new attention to the problem.  Today the various UN agencies classify 15 million people as displace. C) International Migration:-  The massive scale of contemporary international migration leads some commentators to proclaim an Age of Diaspora.  If the 217 million people currently classified as international migrants moved to an unoccupied country.
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   The Indianwriting in English Rashdie was most controversial writer among He began his educational life at Cathedral and John Connor School in Mumbai.  He was sent to Rugby school in England. He produced his first novel “ Grimus” at the time of his employment at the firm.  His book published upon the title of ‘ Imaginary Homeland’ which was one of the collection of his essay whose written by him between 1981 to 1992.  The root of “ Imaginary Homelands” shown in the indo Anglian seminar at London.
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   1) Midnight’schildren 2) Poetics off Indi and Pakistan 3) Indo-Anglian Literature 4) Movie and Television 5) Experience of migrants – Indian migrants to Britain 6) Thatcher/ Flout of election- Question of Palestine.  In the first essay of ‘Imaginary Homelands’ Rashdie described a description memories of ‘Past’ and ‘Present’  he says that “The Past is a foreign country but through use of old photograph represented to turn around that thoughts clearly.  He added that it was reminded again him that it was his present time that was foreign and here mentioned on past.
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   Its reflectedsomething feeling of belonging from somewhere.  Another thing is that when we feel unsecure our life at that time we remembered those things which we lost.  His life covered with full of experienced of marginalized because When he stayed at Bombay at that time he lived with marginalized group and society. he belongs to as Muslim family then as a Pakistani and nowadays he is playing as a roll of British Asian.  As a Diasporic writer he faced lot of problem but he can’t claim in front of them when he belonging to the country and they generally try to forcefully leave country.  Diasporic person’s condition like holding alone among two nations, two cultures, two languages so that as a diasporic person he lost own real identity.
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   In thistopic he had try to opened all facts about own and other country and problem of political, education, religion system.  His root in a country greatly influenced by British rule and his migration to England have helped develop to a double perspective/ consciousness which gave him “stereoscopic vision”  “When the Indian who writes from outside India tries to reflect that world, he is obliged to deal in broken mirrors, some of whose fragments have been irretrievably lost.”  The cultural displacement of the diaspora creates a double identity for them which are at the same time singular, plural and partial.  Rushdie writes : “Our identity is at once plural and partial. Sometimes we feel that we straddle two cultures, at other time we fall between two stools.
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