Korean diaspora Essays

  • North Korean Diaspora

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    “Juche” Government As countries in today’s world are becoming more globalized, one country, North Korea, has stayed and moved in the complete opposite direction since it was divided in 1948. North Korea, described by many as a totalitarian Stalinist dictatorship, but is officially deemed as a “socialist republic” state, is one of five remaining communist states and one of only two remaining countries that have an almost entirely government planned, state-owned economy. For instance, “Economic

  • Shocking the Sensibilities in A Modest Proposal

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    harsher. Actions of the English in the previous century had thrust the Irish people into a state of diaspora; tens of thousands had been ... ... middle of paper ... ...al footnote, not something that pertains to the present. Yet we need only look to poor children huddled on the streets of Brazil, or hear accounts of people who have resorted to using human flesh as sustenance to endure the North Korean famine, to realize that the misery of the world's poor has yet to be tempered by the progress of

  • Bar Kochba Revolt

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    basis of Jews as a nation. To understand the reason for Bar Kochba’s Revolt one must go back many years even before the war. Prior to Hadrian, an emperor by the name of Trajan was the ruler of the Roman empire. Due to the rebellion of the Jews in the Diaspora to the east and the west of them, Trajan, in order to keep the Jews in Palestine from rebelling he had to send a great general to be governor of the Jews in Palestine, a general who was well with the harshness in which he treated people. This general’s

  • Desh and Videsh: Be/Longingness in Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine

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    in Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine Diaspora is the movement of indigenous people or a population of a common people to a place other than the homeland. It can be voluntary or forced and usually the movement is to a place far from the original home. World history is replete with the instances about mass dispersion such as the expulsion of Jews from Europe, the African Trans-Atlantic slave trade, the century long exile of the Messenia’s under Spartan rule. The term Diaspora carries with it a sense of displacement

  • Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's Arranged Marriage

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    Divakaruni repeatedly maligns far too many facets of Indian society and culture” (43). Here, Edward S... ... middle of paper ... ...Print. −−−.“Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s Arranged marriage: A Perspective.” English Literature: Voices of Indian Diaspora. Ed.Malti Agarwal.New Delhi:Atlantic, 2009. !50-157.Print. Jahan, Husne. “Colonial Woes in Postcolonial Writing: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s Arranged Marriage.” The Atlantic Literary Review. 5.3-4 (2004): 41-60.Print. −−−. “Colonial Woes

  • Before I Die

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    They went first to Delhi, arriving with only what they could carry. My father, who was then 5 years old, remembers the tense train journey and the family's difficulties afterward as dispossessed refugees. As adults, my parents joined the Indian diaspora, raising me and my older brother in Sudan, then Abu Dhabi and finally New York. For more than a decade, we have all been Americans. Until that day last November, I had rarely heard Dad speak about the partition. It was a subject I knew I should

  • The Namesake Book Vs Movie

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    Diaspora all around the world face hardships when they first emigrate to their new home countries, but one such difficulty that is significant to their lives is their name. At first, a name appears to be no more than a simple way of identifying oneself. However, names can have great impacts on people’s lives due to their unseen importance and purpose, as shown in both the novel and film, The Namesake. Both adaptations follow the story of an Indian couple after their immigration to the United States

  • Bend It Like Beckham Analysis

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    INDIAN DIASPORA DEPICTED BY DIASPORIC FILM-MAKERS IN CROSSOVER INDIAN MOVIES?” I remember watching the movie “Bend it like Beckham” by Gurinder Chaddha and how fascinated I was with the entire depiction of Indian diaspora and the process of negotiation and assertion of identity that is spun across the movie. In a similar fashion Mira Nair’s the namesake is the story of identity conflict and formation of two diasporic generations in the U.S. I was captivated by the idea of how the Diaspora film-makers

  • Dislocation in Cosmopolis: DeLillo

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    William, ed. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1969. Safran, William. “Diasporas in Modern Societies: Myths of Homeland and Return.” Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies. Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring 1991), pp. 83-99. Vertovec, Steven (1997) ‘Three Meanings of “Diaspora,” Exemplifi ed among South Asian Religions’, Diaspora 6(3): 277–300. Varsava, Jerry A. “The "Saturated Self": Don DeLillo on the Problem of Rogue Capitalism”. Contemporary Literature

  • Namesake Documentary Essay

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    Namesake is a documentary of the ongoing quest of identity of the immigrants.. Diasporas often live in one country as community but yearn to reconnect across time and space to their origin. Culturally they experience fragmentation, marginalization and displacement in their migrated countries. There is a threat to their ethnic and cultural identity and often they are victims of mockery and domination. Thus, the diaspora are stuck in their perpetual dilemma of having lost their sense of belonging to

  • Should Women be Ordained in the Pentecostal Churches?

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    Should Women be Ordained in the Pentecostal Churches within the African Christian Diaspora? Thesis Statement In this paper, I will describe the ecclesiological problem of women’s ordination from a case study that I observed in Berlin, Germany. I wish to claim that the issue of excluding women from ordination is a result of a sociological contrivance that oppresses women. The churches safeguard the issue under the canopy of theological claims. It is appropriate for the churches, which exclude

  • Belonging and Difference in Imagined Communities

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    by faster transportation and the movement and subsequent settlement of peoples across the globe in what has come to be called 'diaspora'. The situation is such that many of the old boundaries and barriers by which nations defined themselves have become less certain, challenged by the increasing power of people to move across them whether literally or figuratively. Diaspora has become a term in academic parlance that is associated with the experience of travel or the introduction of ambiguity into

  • African Diaspora

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    African diaspora studies is a academic field of study which combines social sciences, history, academic scholarship, and general intellectual history. The focus of this field is the problems and experiences faced by both African Americans and continental Africans who migrated from their homeland to new territory where opportunity tends to be limited. Many subjects are combined into the field; such as history, art, music, literature, geography, economics, and anthropology. Based on the article African

  • Asian Diaspora

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    Asian Diaspora Asian diaspora, or the personal and cultural implications of leaving one's homeland, is a central and reaccuring theme for Asian American writers. Diaspora is Greek for "the scattering of seeds" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora), and its ancient denotation has taken figurative meaning today as a feeling of seperation and detachment. In both Fae Myenne Ng's Bone and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's Leaving Yuba City, a thematic thread of "scattered parts", outsiderness, and otherness

  • Edwidge Danticat's Krik? Krak!

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    in. Although it is a mistake to call the stories autobiographical, Krik? Krak! embodies some of Danticat's experiences as a child. While the collection of stories draw on the oral tradition in Haitian society, it is also part of the literature of diaspora, the great, involuntary migration of Africans from their homeland to other parts of the world; thus, the work speaks of loss and assimilation and resistance. The stories all seem to share similar themes, that one story could be in some way linked

  • Shah Rukh Kwood Film Analysis

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    Johar films (KJo) attracted many social classes and members of the diaspora creating emotions and memories of the homeland. He introduced Shah Rukh Khan using the clean and more family oriented movies that reflects the “Indian Culture” in the diaspora. KJO films not only use the homeland to film these movies, but he also started using many exotic places and sceneries like the US, London and Australia. The South Asian Indian Diasporas followed these KJo films, to fulfill their nostalgic memories to

  • Exile In The Kite Runner

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    “Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room” -Mahmoud Darwish. In “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini, exile is a prominent obstacle that numerous characters such as Baba, Hassan, Amir, and Sohrab, must overcome. Exile for many people is associated with geography, but it can happen in many instances, such as a certain room or even a person’s own conscience which can cause underlying problems to prevail. In Kabul, Baba is a man

  • Challenges Of Alienation In The Namesake By Jhumpa Lahiri

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    It shall be my endeavour in this research to explore the theme of Indian Postcolonial diaspora, the cultural dislocation and consequent alienation. The paper attempts to re-trace the multiple terrains of cultural and psychological struggle within for the expatriate, the nostalgia accompanied with the expatriate experience and the continuous conflict between past and the present. I also intend to analyse the series of crises the migrants experience in order to seek acceptance in new cultural denominations

  • Diaspora Consciousness in Manju Kapur’s The Immigrant

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    we come across the Diaspora consciousness of the novelist, though she does not stand in the category of the writers of Diaspora such as Jhumpa Lahiri, Kiran Desai, V.S. Naipaul, Vikram Seth, Bharati Mukharjee, Anita Desai, Upmanyu Chatterjee, Salman Rushdie, Githa Hariharan and so on. The writings of these writers provide an inside view of the problems and obstacles endured by the expatriates in their new adopted land. Before proceeding in this direction, the words- Diaspora, migration or immigration

  • Diaspora and Syal’s Anita and Me

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    Diaspora and Syal’s Anita and Me Diaspora, a term used to describe the dispersion of a people from their original homeland, has become an increasingly pertinent topic of discussion in contemporary society. Nalini Natarajan in the essay “Reading Diaspora” argues that “the phenomenon of diasporic populations is by no means new, but its scale in the twentieth century is dramatic” (xiii). Natarajan also argues that the nature of contemporary diasporic experiences, due to the global reach of technology