1. NAME: Gohil Khanjaniba M.
Class: MA(Part-1)(Semester-2).
Roll no: 15.
Subject: Literary theory and criticism: The 20th Western and Indian
Poetics-2.
Submitted to: The Department Of English,
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University,
Bhavnagar.
ECOCRITICISM, NEW
HISTORICISM AND DIASPORA

2.  Glotfelty‟s definition in the “The Ecocriticism Reader” is that
“ecocriticism is the study of the relationship between literature and
the physical environment”.
 William Rueckert may have been the first person to use the term.
 In 1978, he published an essay “Literature and ecology: An
experiment is ecocriticism”.
 Green studies, eco-poetics and environmental literary criticism- are
forms.
 Two seminal works: “The ecocriticism reader” and “The
environmental imagination”.
ECO CRITICISM

3.  It refers to the studies of
pastoralism, human
ecology, regionalism, etc.
 In the mid 1980s it spread widely.

4.  Historical movement is molded.
 Stephen Greenblatt was the pioneer of the term.
 History text becomes co-text: all forms of documents flaws with text.
 “History is that hurts”- Jameson.
 „Thesis‟ and „Anti-thesis‟.
 „What is not taken in the text?‟
 When somebody writes, he goes on connecting the dots.
 “Our memories constructed by us”-Julian.
 “What we want to vanish it appears to us”-Jameson.
NEW HISTORICISM

5.  Text is history and history is textual.
 Cultural milieu as a raw material.
 Text is deconstructs itself.
 Muscle, mind, media and money-powers.

6.  The term derived from the Greek verb, that means „I scatter‟, ‟I spread
about‟.
 Citizen of a dominant city or state who emigrated to a conquered land
with the purpose of colonization, to assimilate the territory into the
empire.
 The term became more widely assimilated into English by the mid
1950s.
 Maintaining some form of attachment to each.
 It is scattered population from its origin in a smaller geo graphic area.
DIASPORA

7.  The expulsion of Jews from Europe, The African Trans-Atlantic slave
trade, the Southern Chinese during the coolie slave trade.
 Some diaspora community maintains strong political ties with their
home land.