The Commonwealth is an Intergovernmental organizational 54 which were formally part of British emperor .
Commonwealth means British nation and i.e. is political community.
The term has been generally used to refer to the literature of colonies , former colonies and dependencies of Britain excluding the literature of England
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10. What is Commonwealth?
• Commonwealth means
British nation and i.e. is
political community
• The Commonwealth is an
Intergovernmental
organizational 54 which
were formally part of British
emperor
11. What is Commonwealth Literature ?
• The term has been generally used to refer to
the literatures of colonies , former colonies
and dependencies of Britain excluding the
literature of England
• The rise of the study national literature s
writing in English and begins with the study of
American literature
• But those literature that came to be
collectively study
20. The term has been generally used to refer to
the literatures of colonies , former colonies and
dependencies of Britain excluding the literature
of England
Commonwealth Literature
21. • The rise of the study national literature s
writing in English and begins with the study
of American literature
• But those literature that came to be
collectively study
Commonwealth Literature
22. • Commonwealth literature shows that
nationality
• Rushdie present of the Commonwealth
literature category as a created by ‘ghetto’ ,
those how practice English literature ‘proper
Commonwealth Literature Does Not
Exist
23. • What is life like inside the ghetto of
‘Commonalty literature’ ?
• Salman Rushdie's national identity Vs.
British Colonization and Indian Diaspora
24. • the dispersion or spread of any people from
their original homeland.
• the spreading of people from
one original country to other countries
a : people settled far from their ancestral
homelands members of the African diaspora
b : the place where these people live
c : the movement, migration, or scattering of a
people away from an established or ancestral
homeland the black diaspora to northern cities
diaspora
25. Commonwealth Literature, Post-Colonial
Literature in English, New Literature in
English, World Writing in English – these
are just some of the terms being used to
describe the writings of ‘members’ of the
former British Empire.
Commonwealth Literature
27. Inclusion of national literatures of those
countries which do not belong to the
Commonwealth.
Problems Of The Term
Commonwealth Literature
28. Inclusion of national literatures of those
countries which do not belong to the
Commonwealth.
Exclusion of British literature Reproduction
of a Eurocentric view of English studies, based
on the distinction between the centre and the
periphery.
Problems Of The Term
Commonwealth Literatu
29. It does not take into account the affinity
that exists among different non-Western
literatures, regardless of linguistic
differences.
Problems Of The Term
Commonwealth LiteratU
30. It does not take into account the affinity
that exists among different non-
Western literatures, regardless of
linguistic differences.
It lacks a specific critical apparatus.
Problems Of The Term
Commonwealth Literatu
31. Third World Literature
World Literature Written in English
New Literatures in English
Postcolonial literature
Different Term
32. Postcolonial literature relates non-
Western literatures on the basis of a
common historical experience:
colonialism. It does nor privilege
language as the link that joins the
different literatures together.
Differences Between Commonwealth
Literature And Postcolonial Literature
33. Postcolonial literature relates non-Western
literatures on the basis of a common
historical experience: colonialism. It does
nor privilege language as the link that joins
the different literatures together.
Presence of a substantive body of criticism.
Differences Between Commonwealth
Literature And Postcolonial Literature
34. Postcolonial literature relates non-Western
literatures on the basis of a common
historical experience: colonialism. It does nor
privilege language as the link that joins the
different literatures together.
Presence of a substantive body of criticism.
Postcolonial literature is concerned both with
Western and non-Western texts.
35. Intersection of Commonwealth literature and critical
theory.
The agenda for this course:
We will study some basic notions of postcolonial
theory.
We will analyse intertextual relationships between
British master texts and postcolonial texts, but not
British canonical works on their own.
36. • South Africa and Pakistan , for instance ,
are not members of the commonwealth ,
but their authors apparently belong to its
literature
• Salman Rushdie is one of the key
representative of contemporary
commonwealth literature.
37. • Commonwealth literature into conflict
literature and now modern literature
• ‘Commonwealth literature died 199-1996’
Conclusion
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