This document provides an overview of the key concepts in diaspora literature. It begins by defining diaspora as the displacement of a community into a new geographical and cultural region. It then discusses two main moves in diasporic writing: the spatial move involving de-territorialization and re-territorialization, and the temporal move of looking back to the past and forward to the future. Several diasporic authors and their works are listed. The features of diasporic culture include themes of memory, alienation in the new society, and connection to the homeland. Three overarching themes are identified: nostalgia and imaginary homelands, hybrid identities, and globalization. Examples from authors Margaret Atwood
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On a Caribbean island, the morning after a full moon, Makak tears through the market in a drunken rage. Taken away to sober up in jail, all that night he is gripped by hallucinations: the impoverished hermit believes he has become a healer, walking from village to village, tending to the sick, waiting for a sign from God. In this dream, his one companion, Moustique, wants to exploit his power. Moustique decides to impersonate a prophet himself, ignoring a coffin-maker who warns him he will die and enraging the people of the island. Makak, half-awake in his desolate jail cell, terrorized by the specter of his friend's corruption, clings to his visionary quest. He will try to transform himself; to heal Moustique, his jailer, and his jail-mates; and to be a leader for his people.
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things fall a part themes and character Chintan Patel
Rigid social structure ; which isolates and sequesters the OSU, those whom the Igbo society cannot contain within its , ‘system of classification ’
The further fragmentation of the igbo community, , owing to the rigid demarcation between a man’s and a woman's role in the tribe
They go wrestle, celebrate festivals , go to war, while women stay at home
The overconfidence of the tribal in his attitude toward the new religion “EVANGELCAL CHRISTIANITY ”
The lack of unity in tribal’s response to threat posed by the new order and religion
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African Diaspora Professional Women in Europe (ADIPWE) is an online forum that aims to:
- Celebrate the success of African Women in Europe (and in the western world in general)
- Give visibility to those women who have achieved success in their own way but are still unknown by the wider public
- Inspire the new generation of African Women and share ideas to fulfil their potential
- Contribute to Africa rebranding and development by identifying opportunities to transfer the vast amount of knowledge gained in Europe
This forum is open to women of African Diaspora as well as to anyone who has a passion for Africa development.
The Indian diaspora has been the most effective window to promote India and its rich heritage to the world. Whether India will know how to transform the skilled component of the Indian diaspora's geographically-spread skills into a “Great Off-White Hope” for the new century; is a big question.
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This article seeks to demonstrate that cultural nationalism has been a significant ideological force in African literary writings in general and poetry in particular. It endorses a distinctive communitarian vision of the nation and has repeatedly been espoused by many a literary academic as a remarkable effort towards the re-establishment of coherence and integrity in African traditional life and institutions. While recognising the beauty of traditional life, this approach turns a blind eye to the endemic challenges that these nations are grappling with. Taking Okot’s Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol as the literary points of reference, I have delineated the character of cultural nationalism, the leadership role of the colonised intellectual, and its recurring emergence in alternation with escapist idealism. Using Fanonian theory, I have argued that rather than idolise the past in what may be largely interpreted as idealist escapism, Okot’s intent in the two poems selected for this study is to offer a truthful, accurate and objective representation of the real African world. He divorces his poems, Sengorian and Negritudist as they may seem, from rigid cultural historicism and espouses the marginalised perspective that Africa’s culture is a product of shared heritage and the desire for liberation should not blind us to the dynamism of our culture and the reality that neocolonialism has ushered in a new political culture that should worry us more than the coloniser’s. It is not enough for us to look only backwards in our quest for cultural revolution.
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DIASPORIC
COMMUNICATION:
TRANSNATIONAL
CULTURAL PRACTICES AND
COMMUNICATIVE SPACES
Abstract
This article follows the process of development of
academic debate and interest in the concept of
diaspora and attempts to situate it within current
analyses of postmodernity and globalisation as well as
within developments in cultural studies and social
anthropology. Drawing upon the theoretical conceptuali-
sations of diasporas within these fields, the article is
suggesting that diasporic cultural practices constitute
ways of “imagination,” of “institution” of “spaces” that
often extend beyond the boundaries of place, of
articulation of “imagined” and “encountered” com-
munity and of senses of belonging that straddle the
“local versus global” and divide and, in the process,
redefine locality and “the global.” Crucial in such
processes is the development of the “diasporic media
spaces” that are increasingly in evidence in trans-
national and local settings. The article suggests that
such spaces of negotiation and exchange are incre-
asingly becoming sites where conflicting claims of
belonging as well as common frameworks of identity
and solidarity coexist and become articulated.
SHEHINA FAZAL
ROZA
TSAGAROUSIANOU
Shehina Fazal is a Principal
Lecturer at the University
of North London, e-mail:
[email protected]
Roza Tsagarousianou is a
Senior Lecturer at the
Centre for Communication
and Information Studies,
University of Westminster,
e-mail:
[email protected]
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Thinking about Diasporas
The concept of diaspora has a fairly long career in social science discourse, re-
flecting the inextricable connection between human geographical mobility and its
various social dimensions, on the one hand, and human societies in their long proc-
ess of evolution, on the other. As such, the concept of diaspora has reflected the
changing nature of processes — and experiences — of displacement, dislocation,
mobility and settlement that have marked human societies.
Over the past couple of decades, the concept has progressively come to centre
stage in attempts to discuss and understand not only human mobility, but also its
relationship to transnational flows of funds, goods, cultural products, ideologies
or, to use Arjun Appadurai’s terminology, the ethnoscapes, financescapes,
mediascapes and ideoscapes that are part and parcel of the broader phenomenon
of globalisation (1993). This repositioning of the concept in social science discourse
has accompanied a shift from debates that focused on human migration in the
strict sense, that is, immigration, emigration and their regulation towards debates
that attempted to integrate the study of human mobility and diasporic experience
into the broader context of debates on citizenship, identity and culture and the
theoretical and conceptual contexts of the theorisation and understanding of mo-
dernity, postmodernity (or late modernity) and processes of globalisation.
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Hadj Ounis's most notable work is his sculpture titled "Metamorphosis." This piece showcases Ounis's mastery of form and texture, as he seamlessly combines metal and wood to create a dynamic and visually striking composition. The juxtaposition of the two materials creates a sense of tension and harmony, inviting viewers to contemplate the relationship between nature and industry.
2. Overview of the
Presentation
1) Diaspora?
2) Diasporic Writing?
3) What is Temporal and Spatial
Move in diasporic literature?
4) Diasporic authors and their books.
5) Features and themes of Diasporic
Culture/Literature .
6) Them of Nostalgia, memory,
Imaginary homelands with
example, lost home has two main
forms in diasporic literature.
(i) ‘Home’ and the poetics of ‘return’
(ii) Dislocation, relocation, memo-
realization
3. The word Diaspora derives
from the Greek word meaning
“to disperse”. Diaspora is
simply the displacement of a
community/culture into another
geographical and cultural
region.
Robin Cohen defines:
Diaspora as “communities living
together in one country who
acknowledge that the old country
– a nation often buried deep in
language, religion custom or
folklore- always has some claim
on their loyalty and emotion … a
member’s adherence to a
diasporic community is
demonstrated by an acceptance of
an inescapable link with their
pass migration history and a
sense of co-ethnicity with others
of similar background”
Diaspora?
4. 2. Spatial Move?
The spatial move involves
two things: de-territorialization
(the loss of territory. It is both
geographical and cultural)
and a re-teritorialization
(restructuring of a place or
territory that has experienced
de-territorialization
1. Temporal Move?
The temporal move is looking
back at the past (analepsis)
and looking forward at the
future (prolepsis).
Meena Alexander defines as;
“writing in search of a
homeland”
Diasporic writing
Two main moves in
diasporic writing;
5. Diasporic authors
and
their books
An Area of Darkness (Naipaul)
The Rainbow (Hanif Kurishi)
The Famished Road
(Ben Okri),
The Nowhere Man
(Markandaya)
Brick Lane (Monica Ali)
The House of a Thousand
Doors (Alexander)
The Calcutta Chromosome
(Ghosh).
6. Features of Diasporic
Culture/Literature would
Include:
The shift, Contrast, and
relation between centre and
periphery
The memory - details of
childhood landscapes,
historical events, people
The sense of alienation in new
society/culture/land
Features of homeland- language
/rituals, forms of behavior
Reclamation of history of the
homeland and childhood
spaces
Ambivalence between seeking
acceptance/assimilation in
the new cultures
7. The previous features
and themes can be
reorganized following
three themes:
1) Nostalgia, memory,
Imaginary homelands
2) Hybridities and new
identities
3) Globalization and
cosmopolitanism
8. Nostalgia, memory,
Imaginary homelands
Exile and displacement
narratives frequently combine
a sense of disquiet with their
nostalgia and longing.
For example:
Margaret Atwood writes.
“Ii is my clothes, my way of walking,
The things I carry in my hand
………………………………..
This space cannot hear”
9. (i)‘Home’ and the
poetics of ‘return’
Meena Alexander writes in
Manhattan Music (1997)
‘She [Sandhya] kept returning to
her childhood home, a house
with a red-tiled roof and a
sandy courtyard where the
mulberry bloomed’
“Did my uncles ride on camels?.. Did my
cousins, so like me in other ways, squat
down in the sand like little Mowglis,
half-naked and eating with their fingers?
.... Sories to help me see my place in
world and give me a sense the past
which could go into making a life in the
present and the future.
Hanif Kurishi mentions in his essay
‘The Ranbow’ as;
Hanif KurishiMeena Alexander