LIT BINDERS

A Fine Balance 

NOTE ON DIASPORA Diaspora (Greek, 'dispersion'), is a term used for large scale migration of people from the country of their origin to other countries, either voluntarily or due to economic or political compulsions. When we speak of the Indian Diaspora we mean Indians settled in England, America, Africa, and the Caribbean. Similarly one can discuss the Caribbean Diaspora to England, Canada and France. Diaspora studies also became an academic discipline. In literature too the text composed of such displacement constitutes the Diaspora Literature. Diasporas refers to communities of people who have been displaced from the countries of their birth for socio-economic or political reasons. Their movement could be either forced or voluntary. Etymologically, the word diaspora was derived from the Greek word diasperien meaning to "sow or scatter seeds", which means new beginning and transplantation. Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin define diaspora ...

J.M Coetzee: Disgrace Disgrace is a novel by J. M. Coetzee, published in 1999. It won the Booker Prize. The writer was also awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature four years after its publication. Characters: David Lurie twice-divorced professor of Communications at Cape Technical University in Cape Town South Africa,fifty-two years old. Soraya prostitute that Lurie has visited weekly for over a year. Melanie Isaacs student in Lurie's Romantics course who charges a sexual harassament complaint against him after having sex with Lurie. Lucy Lurie's daughter who owns a farm and takes care of dogs. Lurie lives with her after he is dismissed from his position at the University. Bev Shaw woman who runs the animal shelter and with whom Lurie has an affair. Bill Shaw Bev's husband, who sees Davis Lurie as his friend Petrus African who works for Lucy Mr. Isaac Melanie's father whom Lurie apologizes to after the incident. Pollux one of the three South Africans who rape...

Chinua Achebe: "Colonialist Criticism : Chinua Achebe is born Albert Chinualumogu Achebe- (16 November 1930 - 21 March 2013) was a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor and critic. He was best known for his first novel and magnum opus, Things Fall Apart (1958), whichi s the most widely read book in modern African literature. Raised by his parents in the Igbo town of Ogidi in southeastern Nigeria, Achebe excelled at school and won a scholarship for undergraduate studies. He became fascinated with world religions and traditional African cultures and began writing stories as a university student. After graduation, he worked for the Nigerian Broadcasting Service (NBS) and soon moved to the metropolis of Lagos. He gained worldwide attention for Things Fall Apart in the late 1950s. His later novels include No Longer at Ease (1960), Arrow of God (1964), A Man of the People (1966), and Anthills of the Savannah (1987). Achebe wrote his novels in English and defended the use of En...

Introduction to Post Colonial Literature: Post-colonial literature is a body of literary writing that responds to the intellectual discourse of European colonization in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, the Pacific and other post-colonial areas throughout the globe. Post-colonial literature addresses the problems and consequences of the decolonization of a country and of a nation, especially the political and cultural independence of formerly subjugated colonial people and it also is a literary critique of and about post-colonial literature the undertones of which carry, communicate and justify racialism and colonialism. The contemporary forms of post-colonial literature present literary and intellectual critiques of the post-colonial discourse by endeavouring to assimilate post-colonialism and its literary expressions. Post-colonial literary criticism re-examines colonial literature, especially concentrating upon the social discourse between the colonizer and the colonized, t...