Name: Pipavat Gopi Class: M.A Sem 3 Submitted To :Department Of English

Bhavnagar Uni. Topic Name: Postcolonial Aspects In

Imaginary Homeland

SALMAN RUSHDIE Born on 19th June,

1947 in Bombay. Kashmiri Indian who

is British citizen Genre is Magic

realism, Satire, Post colonialism.

Subject of writing are Historical criticism and Travel writing.

Famous for his essay and novels.

RUSHDIE’S WORKS : “Midnight’s Children”(1981) “The Satanic Verses”(1988) “Haroun and the Sea of Stories”(1990) “Joseph Anton: A Memoir”(2012) “The Ground Beneath Her Feet”(1999) “The Moor’s Last Sing”(1995) “Imaginary Homelands”(1991) “ The Enchantress of Horence”(2008)

ESSAY HOBSON - JOBSON Yule and Burnell

looking for their dictionary

Assimilation of adopted foreign words to the sound – pattern of the adopting language

Henry Yule was a retired Bengali engineer and the other is Arthur Coke Burnell was an English scholar in Sanskrit.

MEANING AND ORIGIN The shorter title of “ Hobson –

Jobson: A glossary of colloquial Anglo- Indian words and phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, historical, geographical and discursive….”

INTRODUCTION OF THE IMAGERY HOMELANDS

Rushdi definition of migrant identity and the themes of Indian Diaspora in “Imaginary 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.

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

WHAT 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

THE NEW EMPIRE WITHIN BRITAIN British people are bias – select arrival Stereotype category given to individual Black people are problem Concept of Ghetto Role of Confidence Realism prevails – prejudice Between

White & Black

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