1. Topic : Modernism, Diaspora, Almkara
School.
• Name : Makwana Ankita m.
• Paper No :7.
• Roll No :2.
• Year :2013-14.
• Semester : 2.
• Submitted to : Department of English.
2. Modernism
It is a new branch of literature and it was a
established after first World War(1914-1918)
Bases on western culture in general.
Supported traditional modes of social organisation.
Some historical locate the beginning of the modernist
revolt as far back as the 1890s.
Modernism also rejected the certainty of Englishment
Thinking and many modernists rejected religious
belief.
3. “The modern artist is working
with space and time and
expressing his feelings rather
than illustrating.”
-Jacknson Pollock.
• “In the glad old days, before
the rise of modern
morbidities...it used to be
thought a disadvantage to be
misunderstood.”
― G.K Chesternton , Heretics.
4. Diaspora
• Birth of Diaspora Literature
• However, the 1993 Edition of Shorter Oxford's
definition of Diaspora can be found. While still
insisting on capitalization of the first letter,
'Diaspora' now also refers to 'anybody of people
living outside their traditional homeland
Often diaspora the body of Jews or Jewish
communities outside Palestine or modern Israel.
Etymologically, the term Diaspora coined from
Greek word Diaspeirein - "to scatter
about,disperse“.
8. • 1.Forced Migration to Africa, Fiji or
the Carribbean on account of slavery
or indentured labour in the 18th or
19th century.
• 2.Voluntary Migration to U.S.A., U.K.,
Germany, France or other European
countries for the sake of professional
or academic purposes.
