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    The document provides an overview of diaspora literature and characteristics. It discusses how diaspora literature involves narratives of displacement from a homeland and journeys undertaken due to economic factors. Diaspora studies emerged as an academic field in the late 20th century focused on dispersed populations. The document then lists some characteristics of diaspora literature, including influence from writers' life experiences with politics, religion, and psychology. Finally, it briefly introduces some notable literary works that could be considered diaspora literature, such as Frankenstein and The Castle of Otranto.

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    The document provides an overview of diaspora literature and characteristics. It discusses how diaspora literature involves narratives of displacement from a homeland and journeys undertaken due to economic factors. Diaspora studies emerged as an academic field in the late 20th century focused on dispersed populations. The document then lists some characteristics of diaspora literature, including influence from writers' life experiences with politics, religion, and psychology. Finally, it briefly introduces some notable literary works that could be considered diaspora literature, such as Frankenstein and The Castle of Otranto.

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    The document provides an overview of diaspora literature and characteristics. It discusses how diaspora literature involves narratives of displacement from a homeland and journeys undertaken due to economic factors. Diaspora studies emerged as an academic field in the late 20th century focused on dispersed populations. The document then lists some characteristics of diaspora literature, including influence from writers' life experiences with politics, religion, and psychology. Finally, it briefly introduces some notable literary works that could be considered diaspora literature, such as Frankenstein and The Castle of Otranto.

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    The document provides an overview of diaspora literature and characteristics. It discusses how diaspora literature involves narratives of displacement from a homeland and journeys undertaken due to economic factors. Diaspora studies emerged as an academic field in the late 20th century focused on dispersed populations. The document then lists some characteristics of diaspora literature, including influence from writers' life experiences with politics, religion, and psychology. Finally, it briefly introduces some notable literary works that could be considered diaspora literature, such as Frankenstein and The Castle of Otranto.

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    World Literature &

    Diaspora Studies
    Jason Frydman
    This is our team.

    Rabiyatul Fitriah Nadya Zalianty


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    Fadhila Rahmadina Rita Zahara


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    Table of Contents.

    What is Diaspora in Background


    01 02 03
    diaspora? literature of Diaspora

    Diaspora Literary
    04 characteristics 05 Works
    What is
    diaspora??
    Diaspora Literature involves an idea of a homeland, a place from
    where the displacement occurs and narratives of harsh journeys
    undertaken on account of economic compulsions. Basically Diaspora
    is a minority community living in exile.
    Diaspora in
    Literature
    Diaspora studies is an academic field established in the late 20th century to study
    dispersed ethnic populations, which are often termed diaspora peoples. The usage
    of the term diaspora carries the connotation of forced resettlement, due to
    expulsion, coercion, slavery, racism, or war, especially nationalist conflicts.
    Background of
    diaspora
    The world's principles emerge in contemporaneously with innovative
    fashion conceptualizing global dynamics from Hegel's idealistic
    perspective on Marx and Engels' materialism.
    This affiliation has been described as the intellectual offspring of
    the "world system" imagination of the nineteenth century world
    history. The large-scale placements and migrations that were
    generated by and productive of the modern world economic
    system have deeply imprinted on global literary production:
    Africa, Asia, Europe, and Australia. The Chinese and Indian
    diaspora affected by colonial economic and political systems, for
    examples has reached a level of technical proficiency that is
    advanced and fluent throughout all of Europe. Asia, Africa, and
    America all serve as prime examples of their distribution and
    formation. across geopolitical and aesthetic categories with
    literary implications, ancient and modern diaspora formations.
    However, if a lot of those things happen, the diaspora will be. Writing
    demonstrates the importance of bat-like innards for world history. The idea, it
    is also the same reliably forges a counter discourse that challenges temporal
    and spatial trajectories that operates in theories of European historical
    cosmology and history In one of the early analyzes of the contemporary global
    literary market, Goethe's play Torquato Tasso captured the interest of the
    French (see Pizer in this book). as a sign of a new era in international literature
    that offers "a larger perspective on international and human relations" (Goethe
    1973: 5).
    Diaspora
    Characteristics
    The characteristics of diaspora literature cannot be separated from the influence
    of the life experiences of the writers, both politically, religiously, sociologically and
    even psychologically, which greatly affects diaspora literary works.
    Among the factors that influence and constitute a reality they experience, namely:
    a. Eastern culture with its various traditions, customs, views of life and and
    obsession with migratory life
    b. Extensive knowledge and study of the classical works of his country, as well as his
    cultural experience.
    c. Longing for a country full of dilemmas, both political and social.
    d. Good understanding, proficiency, knowledge and emotions towards foreign
    languages.
    e. The influence of freedom, cultural, social and political progress of the newly
    occupied country. (Hambali: 2009).
    Literary Works of
    Diaspora
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    know some interesting facts about animals!
    The Vampyre
    John William Polidori’s The Vampyre is both a classic tale of
    gothic horror and the progenitor of the modern romantic
    vampire myth that has been fodder for artists ranging from
    Anne Rice to Alan Ball to Francis Ford Coppola. Originally
    published in 1819, many decades before Bram Stoker’s Dracula,
    and misattributed to Polidori’s friend Lord Byron, The Vampyre
    has kept readers up at night for nearly two hundred years.
    Frankenstein
    Frankenstein tells the story of gifted scientist Victor
    Frankenstein who succeeds in giving life to a being of his own
    creation. However, this is not the perfect specimen he imagines
    that it will be, but rather a hideous creature who is rejected by
    Victor and mankind in general. The Monster seeks its revenge
    through murder and terror.
    The Castle of Otranto
    The Castle of Otranto, by Horace Walpole, is generally viewed as
    the first Gothic novel. Its first edition, published in 1764, claimed to
    be a translation of a work printed in Naples in 1529 and newly
    discovered in the library of ‘an ancient Catholic family in the north
    of England’. It tells the story of Manfred, the prince of Otranto, who
    is keen to secure the castle for his descendants in the face of a
    mysterious curse. The novel begins with the death of Manfred’s son,
    Conrad, who is crushed to death by an enormous helmet on the
    morning of his wedding to the beautiful princess Isabella. Faced
    with the extinction of his line, Manfred vows to divorce his wife and
    marry the terrified Isabella himself.
    Dibaxu
    Juan Gelman appropriates Ladino—the language of the
    Sephardic Jews, which he encountered while exiled in Europe—
    as a diasporic language in dibaxu to represent linguistically his
    deterritorialisation during the Argentine Dirty War. Writing in
    Ladino is an act of self-minorisation that displaces the identity
    created by others, permitting him to create a new identity as he
    actively adopts a marginalised language instead of falling back
    to his native language, a language controlled by the oppressors.
    The Transit Camp to the Outcast
    A major novelist, Ballas has published fifteen works of fiction,
    several important studies on contemporary Arabic literature,
    and numerous translations from Arabic. Although he began his
    career in Arabic, Ballas switched to Hebrew in the mid 1960s.
    Since then, Ballas, perhaps more than any other Israeli writer,
    has opened a window into the political and psychological life of
    the contemporary Arab world, both at home and in exile. His
    works consistently defy categorization, from the first Israeli
    novel to depict life among the Arab Jewish immigrants of the
    1950s (The Transit Camp, 1964)
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