![]() In this global age, when postmodern and transnational tendencies are expected to increase in literature, many past and present masters merit review using the latest criteria. ![]() It is applicable in critical appraisal not only of many major writers who physically crossed national and cultural borders in real life, but also of their protagonists whose diasporic lives reveal a broader range of worldviews and human relations hitherto undetected by traditional approaches. ![]() A diasporic perspective can yield fresh insights and allow new assessments of novelists and their works. Particularly in the comparative study of literature, the concept of diaspora has become increasingly important in critical analysis of an author's life course, plot construction, characterization, motifs, and themes. In its recent use in literary and cultural studies, "diaspora" points to "dispersed people persons without a homeland wandering people" and "any scattering of people with a common origin, background, beliefs, etc." 1 As a historical term, "Diaspora" refers first to the dispersion of the Jews from Judea by the Babylonians in 586 BCE.
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