Clifford And Kiershenblatt Diaspora Analysis
Diasporas
Q3: How do Clifford and Kirshenblatt-Gimblett define the term “diaspora”? Are their approaches different, similar? A diaspora is defined as a group of people that were forced to leave one place to another. James Clifford and Barbara Kirshenblatt Gimblett both discusses about the term diasporas, but the way they defined the term were very different. Clifford defines diaspora as an immigrant communities who were separated from their homeland by barriers. These dispersed people increase themselves to have a relationship with their old country by communicating through the use of modern technologies.But even though they move out of their homeland they keep a memory of their heritage. He describes the concept by examining the difference and similarities of the definition in the past and present. He …show more content…
Even though there is a separation between two things we are able to recreate one common idea between them. Theodor H. Gaster and Melville Herskovits said how “ some people create a common or homogenous culture while others borrow from them (Gimblett 340)”. An example of this would be immigrants leaving from a country to a new place and forming a new bond within those people. Diaspora is also an explanation for difference. Boas and Herskovits approaches the Jewish diaspora and African American diaspora more differently. The history of Jewish diaspora refers to the scatter of Jews throughout the world by carrying religious views, as the Jews create a relationship between the land of Israel and themselves. And the black diaspora were struggling to become british but also stay close to the histories of African American by their sharing their stories of enslavement, racism, and cultural
Q3: How do Clifford and Kirshenblatt-Gimblett define the term “diaspora”? Are their approaches different, similar? A diaspora is defined as a group of people that were forced to leave one place to another. James Clifford and Barbara Kirshenblatt Gimblett both discusses about the term diasporas, but the way they defined the term were very different. Clifford defines diaspora as an immigrant communities who were separated from their homeland by barriers. These dispersed people increase themselves to have a relationship with their old country by communicating through the use of modern technologies.But even though they move out of their homeland they keep a memory of their heritage. He describes the concept by examining the difference and similarities of the definition in the past and present. He …show more content…
Even though there is a separation between two things we are able to recreate one common idea between them. Theodor H. Gaster and Melville Herskovits said how “ some people create a common or homogenous culture while others borrow from them (Gimblett 340)”. An example of this would be immigrants leaving from a country to a new place and forming a new bond within those people. Diaspora is also an explanation for difference. Boas and Herskovits approaches the Jewish diaspora and African American diaspora more differently. The history of Jewish diaspora refers to the scatter of Jews throughout the world by carrying religious views, as the Jews create a relationship between the land of Israel and themselves. And the black diaspora were struggling to become british but also stay close to the histories of African American by their sharing their stories of enslavement, racism, and cultural