1. Paper : The Post colonial
Literature.
Topic : Postcolonial aspects in
Imaginary Homeland
Prepared by : Avani Dave
Sem – 3
Roll No: 02
Department of English
Maharaja Krishnakumar
Sinhji Bhavnagar University

2.  Salman Rushdie : Born 19th June 1947
 Ethnicity : Kashmiri Indian
 Citizenship : British
 Mirror of Nostalgia
 Literature – official facts and
self- validating
 Indian- born British Writer Diaspora
‘Indian’ outside India !
 Past is a foreign Country
-L.P.Hartley’s novel
The Go-Between

3. 1. Attenborough’s Gandhi
Fear in the Play
Goldberg
 Silence & Mc Cann
Deification
Why should an Englishman want to Deify Gandhi ?
 The Stanley Webber of Menace
Atmosphere
Western psyche – Three broad headings
 Pinteresque Effect
• Christian
 Knocking ofExotic Door longing for
the
a
 Knocking is Impulse
threatening ‘Leader’
Liberal
conservative
political
desire

4. 2. Commonthe Play
wealth Literature do not Exist
Fear in
Goldberg
 ‘CommonwealthCann
 Silence & Mc literature’ it appears, is that body of
writing created, I think, in English language by person
 who are notWebber of Menace
The Stanley themselves white Britons, or Irish, or citizens
Atmosphere
of the United States of America’.
 Indian branch ofEffect Literature
 Pinteresque English
 Third world literature
 Hallmark of Indian the Door
 Knocking of Tradition
 Knocking is threatening

5. Fear in and Jobson
3. Hobson the Play
Goldberg Mc Cann
 Silence &dictionary of British India
The legendary
Surprise reader by words like curry, pukka,
 The Stanley Webber of Menace
Atmosphere
cummerbund.
Cash -> sanskrit karsha
 Pinteresque Effect Great China
Macheen -> maha cheen,
Poggle -> Pagal
 Knocking of the Door
Shyamala -> Shimla
 Knocking is threatening

6. Fear in the Play
4. The New Empire within Britain
Goldberg
 Silence & Mc Cann
British people are bias – select arrival
Stereotype category given to individual
 The Stanley Webber of Menace
Atmosphere
Black people are problem
Concept of Ghetto
 Pinteresque Effect
Role of Confidence
Realism prevails – prejudice Between
White & Black of the Door
Knocking
 Knocking is threatening
Our People
Other People
Individual
error
collective
error