Prepared by :Krupali k lewade

M.A Sem-2

Subject : paper -7 Literary Criticism

Topic of presentation : Diaspora

Feminist Criticism

post-colonial theory

Diaspora

Post colonial Theory

Feminist criticism

Diaspora involves an

idea of a homeland.

People have hope or

desire to return to

their home.

The culture, language

and religion, norms

etc are different from

their home land.

The situation of Diaspora in tradition of indo-christian.

After the fall of satan from heaven and

Adam and eve from garden of Edan.

It creates an element of Diaspora.

They are separated from their homeland .

Influence Of Colonialism

The Diaspora resulting from the enslavement of

Africans and their relocation to place like the

British colonies.

Poor areas like India, china , west indies, Malaya

and other areas which are under the influence of

colonialism.

The term Diaspora can be applied to expatriate

minority communities . The members of the community

share some of the common characteristic.

They and their ancestor have been dispersed from

special original “center”

They retain a collective memory, vision or myth. Its

location, history and achievements.

They are accepted by lost society. They have to live and

alone and always insulted by others.

They regard their homeland as true ideal home and the place in

which they eventually return.

Robin Cohen classifies Diaspora as:

1. Victim Diaspora

2. Labour Diaspora

3. Imperial Diaspora

4. Trade Diaspora

5. Homeland

Indian Diasporic literature classified in two part

1.Forced

2.Voluntary

Distinct phase of Diaspora

1.Visitor Diaspora

2.Settler Diaspora

Considering ‘post’ is a prefix meaning after. It is

necessary to know the history behind

colonialism .

Asia, Africa and south America

A set of theoretical and critical strategies

used to examine The cultural, literature,

politics, history of former colonies.

Post colonial theory deals with the reading

and writing literature written in previously

or current colonized country, or literature

written in colonizing countries which

deals with the colonization and colonised

people.

The Role Of Critic In Postcolonial Criticism:-

The post colonial critic rejects the universalism of

western canon.

It examines how western literature represents other

culture.

Post-colonialism also deals with the conflict of identity,

culture and belonging.

Past colonial theory transformed literary theory in the

past three decades.

By exchanging topic like decolonization ,migration,

language, knowledge, production and representation .

Postcolonial theory approaches the study of literature

in a way that interest with other field .

Example of postcolonial theory in

Kamala Das’s poem

Feminist criticism

is the literary

theory that

explores that bias

in favor of male

gender in

literature, and

which literature

reexamines as

from feminist point

of view.

superiority

&

Inferiority

The Feminist movement started in the nineteenth century.

The center of the moment is the promotion for equal rights

for women

Elaine showwalter

Feminist criticism divided in to two part

1. “feminist critique”- it focused on women as

the reader.

2. “Gynocritics”- it is considerd women as a

writer.

Role of critic in Feminist Criticism

Rediscovers the text written by Female.

Revalue women’s experience.

It examines representation of female.

Challenges the view of “other” or “second sex”

It examines social versus biological difference.

Toni Morrison’s Novel the “Bluest eyes”.

‘Pecola’ the protagonist of the novel is victim of male

dominant society.

She was raped by his own father.

Society does not accept her .she has to live alone.

Still we are colonized

by Britishers