Diasporic Literary Analysis

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Inspired things are penned down by writers in Literature by various forms. Literature possesses several fragments to define each stream with its wide vision and perspective, among them is Diasporic literature that occupies foremost priority. Initially the term ‘Diaspora’ referred the Citizens of Grand City of Greek who migrated to Conquered land to assimilate their territory into vast Empire. Later this meaning was cut off when the Old Testament was translated to Greek and the term denoted to Cultural development and Ethnic Population of Jews who were forced to leave Palestine but Gabriel Sheffer in his book Modern Politics cites that the term have existed even before Greek and Jews to refer the migration of Assyrians, Nabatheans,Phenicians.The …show more content…

The primary reason for earlier migration was to work as labourers or slaves in the second world imposed by Colonizers, return to homeland was quite impossible due to the economic scantiness and lack of transportation. Refugees intend to migrate to their neighbouring country due to the war in native country.Eg: Tamil Srilankans who migrate to Tamilnadu. New Economics and Neo classical economics plays a vital role as the Migration takes place in the circumstance of stress. Physical distance from homeland thus became the reason for their Nostalgia and Psychological Alienation. It was primarily concerned because of their less illiteracy. First generation immigrants face more problems because of the unwillingness to assimilate with host country.To them Home is a lost place. A person may find several versions of Homeland in new ’Host land ‘but nothing could replace their wrenched ‘Idyllic home’ where their Passion peaked and Idealism …show more content…

In terms of emotion and feelings there are several differences between a Diaspora and Migrant. They don’t correspond to refer a unique meaning. Diaspora refers to the larger semantic domains as overseas community, refugees, immigrant, and exile community. According to William Safran, The chief characteristic to Identify a Diaspora is the collective homeland memories of people, the influence of homeland probably affects their Identity which clearly signifies their love for home. Migration is broadly classified into several categories namely: Internal Migration (Migration within same country), International Migration (Migration to different country), Temporary Migration (Possibility to return shortly), International Migration (Settlement in different country with no hope for return).Migrant identities means a person who is influenced by the past migration history of his/her parents or

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