Topic: Commonwealth Literature Does Not Exist

Name: Goswami Gayatri M.Roll no:8M.A. Sem. 3Paper no.:11 The Postcolonial LiteratureYear:2014-15PG Enrolment no: PG13101011Email ID: gayatrigoswami19@gmail.com Submitted to: Department Of English Smt. S. B. Gardi M. K. Bhavnagar University Dt.: 3/10/2014

sIntroduction of the Imagery Homelands

• The imagery Homeland is an collection essays , review and interview which were made for 1981 to 1996

• Rushdie's in his essay Colonialism and the ironies of culture, film, politicians, the Labour Party, religious fundamentalism in America, racial situation and the preciousness of the imagination and of free expression.

• Rushdi definition of migrant identity and the themes of Indian Diaspora in “Imaginary Homelands”

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

sWhat 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

Commonwealth Literature Does Not Exist• Commonwealth literature shows that nationality

• Rushdie present of the Commonwealth literature category as a created by ‘ghetto’ , those how practice English literature ‘proper’ • What is life like inside the ghetto of ‘Commonalty literature’ ?

• Salman Rushdie's national identity Vs. British Colonization and Indian Diaspora

• In this essay Rushdie talks about “THE IDEA OF LANGUAGE POLITICS ”

• Commonwealth literature means “MASTER SLAVE RELATIONSHIP”

• ‘ Commonwealth literature is positioned below English literature

• Rushdie talks about category of language and it’s politics

sEnglish LiteratureCommonwealth Literature

sThe famous name among Commonwealth writers includes :

• Salman Rushdie • Arun Koladkar • R.K . Narayan • Japanese Nobel Kazuo Ishiguro• Nayantra Sahangal

• 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.

Conclusion

• Commonwealth literature into conflict literature and now modern literature • ‘Commonwealth literature died 199-1996’

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