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Assignment # 1 Faculty: Current Affairs Teacher: Ali Mujahid Class ID: Topic: Islamophobia Student Name: Syed Fahad Ali Student ID: 54592 Submission Date : 25/09/2010 Islamophobia Reference website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamophobia Islamophobia (ie. Islam+phobia‚ "fear") is prejudice against‚ or an irrational fear of Islam or Muslims. The term seems to date back to the late 1980s‚ but came into common usage after the September 11‚ 2001 attacks in the United States to refer
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Indian writing in English Raja Rammohan Ray was the first Indian to effectively express himself in black and white through English though he was initiated to the language when he was in his teens. Thereafter Vivekananda showed his perfect masterly over the language through his evocative prose‚ which made the west sit up and take notice of the greatness of Hinduism. Tagore also had written some poems in English. However‚ there is no denying the fact that Indian writings in English were extremely
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I was born in the city of Bombay… once upon a time. (Rushdie‚ pg 3) Proper London‚ capital of Vilayet‚ winked blinked nodded in the night. (Rushdie‚ pg. 4) To enter the Rushdian post– colonial space‚ the reader needs to be possessed of a vividly romantic and incisively theoretical imagination‚ for reading Rushdie is to imagine with him two different sets of post– colonial spaces— the homeland that is imagined through the medium of unreliable memories‚ and the Vilayet or the land of the white man
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New criticism approaches - FOUZIA LAKHMOR - G3 - S4 - ON : 530 New Criticism A literary movement that started in the late 1920s and 1930s and originated in reaction to traditional criticism that new critics saw as largely concerned with matters extraneous to the text‚ e.g.‚
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Preserving Childhood Innocence Books are banned due to explicit content proposed to certain audiences. This is done to protect the readers‚ mostly pertaining to children. A wise man name Salman Rushdie once said “What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend‚ it ceases to exist.” This explains any piece of literature will always offend someone and writers should not live in the fear to inflict someone’s penniless tender feelings which is prominent in the The Catcher and the
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which causing death of morality as Rushdie says. First of all‚ main reason why people are joining these reality programmes is just the anxiety of being rich and famous which are the most two important notions in western society in these days (Rushdie‚ 2010‚ p.63). Contestants are doing bizarre and disturbing just for obtaining wealth and fame‚ like a guy fried his hand at American Survivor (Rushdie‚ 2010‚ p.63). This leads us Rushdie’s thesis “good to be bad” (Rushdie‚ 2010‚ p.64) from which it is comprehensible
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novel are portrayed in a subtle and intriguing manner through the central characters. The theme of Diaspora in the world of literature describes loss of identity and isolation witnessed by the Indian writers who are settled abroad. Writers like Salman Rushdie [5] ‚ Vikram Seth [6] and Kiran Desai have given insight into what it means to travel between the West and the East. The novel is set in modern day India‚ and the story is narrated to depict the collapse of established order due to insurgency
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Interview with Anita Desai Magda Costa interviewed Anita Desai in Barcelona‚ 30 Jan 2001. Desai was in Spain to launch the Spanish and Catalan translations of Fasting‚ Feasting. -How was it to grow up in a family like yours‚ with a German mother and a Bengali father‚ in India? -When you are a child you take for granted what your family is; you don’t question it. The fact is that my mother adapted so completely to the Indian way of life that nobody thought of her as a foreigner anymore. It’s true
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(a) Volpone (b) Mother Courage and Her Children (c) A Doll’s House (d) Endgame 3. Which one of the following author-book pairs is correctly matched? (a) Elfride Jelinek - The Pianist (b) J.M. Coetzee- Shame (c) Saul Bellow - Herzog (d) Salman Rushdie - Disgrace 4. The Plough and the ‘Stars’ was written by - (a) G.B. Shaw (b) Sean O’Casey (c) Lady Gregory (d) J.M. Synge 5. Willy Loman is a character in- (a) Waiting for Godot (b) A Doll’s House (c) The Cherry Orchard (d) The Death
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