1. Name:- Zala Krutikaba. D
Roll No.:- 15
Sem :- 3
2014-2015
Paper :-The Postcolonial Literature
Topic :- Unit-5 : Select Terms
submitted to :- Smt. S.B. Gardi
Department of English
M.K Bhavnagar University

2. Introduction
Post colonial in literature includes the study
of theory and literature as it relates to the
colonizer-colonized experience.
Post-colonial literature is a study of the
effects of colonialism on cultures and
societies.
It shows how European nations controlled
“Third world” cultures .

4. Diaspora
Movement
of
“Migration”
Dispersion
or
Scattering
Far from
“Homeland”
Diaspora

5. Diaspora is related with the history of Jews.
Jews living outside Israel.
The dispersion of Jews in 60th cent. B.C. , when
they were exiled to Babylonia until the present
time.
People
settled
more than
one
location
Some
communi
ties are
strong
political
power.
Thought
of return ,
relation
with other
communi
ty
Lack of
assimilati
on
Base on
Imperialis
m and
labor
migration
.

6. “Sometimes we feel we straddle
two cultures; at other times, that
we fall between two stools.”
― Salman Rushdie

8. Commonwealth
Commonwealth is a tradition English term
for a political community founded for the
common good.
Commonwealth highlights the similarities
that exits among different literature in
English.

9. Common
weal
Well being
Advantages
Public
welfare
Republic
General
good

10. “All life is linked together in such a way
that no part of the chain is unimportant.
Frequently, upon the action of some of these
minute beings depends the material success
or failure of a great commonwealth.”
- John Henry Comstock