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Journal articles on the topic "M. G. Vassanji"

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Bower, Rachel, Désha Amelia Osborne, and Oliver Ross. "An Interview with M G Vassanji." Wasafiri 26, no. 2 (2011): 3–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02690055.2011.557481.

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Malak, Amin. "Ambivalent Affiliations and the Postcolonial Condition: The Fiction of M. G. Vassanji." World Literature Today 67, no. 2 (1993): 277. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40149067.

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Ali Abbas, Hussein, Manimangai Mani, Wan Roselezam Wan Yahya, and Hardev Kaur Jujar Singh. "The Different Types of Ethnic Affiliation in M. G. Vassanji's No New Land." Advances in Language and Literary Studies 8, no. 1 (2017): 60. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.alls.v.8n.1p.60.

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Establishing a sense of affiliation to ethnicity is one of the most controversial issues for people who are displaced in countries that are far away from their motherland. The colonisation of the British over Asia and Africa in the nineteenth century resulted in the mass movement of Indian workers from India to Africa. These workers were brought in to build railways that connected the British colonies in East Africa namely Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. While the arrival of the Indian workers is considered as a kind of colonial practice, but their deportation in the post-independence years is seen as a part of decolonization. These Indians were forced to leave Africa as they were blamed for being non supportive of the Africans who were then engaged in armed struggles against the British colonialists. This study is based on the lives of these deported Indians as depicted in the novel titled No New Land by M.G. Vassanji. M.G. Vassanji is a Canadian novelist whose family was also deported from Dar Esslaam, Tanzania. He also describes how the Indian Shamses were strict in affiliating with the different social and cultural background they found in their new home, Canada. This research examines the theme of affiliation and the experiences of these migrants. This study will show that South Asians in Canada are strict in their affiliation to their ethnic values. Secondly, it will expose the three types of affiliation and finally show how the author deals with affiliation as a part of the community’s ethnic record that must be documented.

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Zacharias, Robert. "In-Between WorldandWorlds Within: Reading Diasporic Return in Vassanji and Bissoondath." Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 1, no. 2 (2014): 207–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pli.2014.12.

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The return journey has long been recognized as a central feature of diaspora, yet contemporary diaspora studies have conventionally understood it in stubbornly mythological terms. This paper looks to foster discussion about physical diasporic return journeys by juxtaposing M. G. Vassanji’sThe In-Between World of Vikram Lall(2003) and Neil Bissoondath’sThe Worlds Within Her(1998). Although the two novels overlap in their exploration of the Indian diaspora against the backdrop of racially volatile independence movements in former British colonies, they offer starkly different renderings of diasporic return that are reflected in their engagements with diasporic history. The paper closes with a consideration of the critical assumptions that have allowed the return journey to be overlooked in diaspora literary studies to date, suggesting that its absence may reflect the methodological nationalism of the field.

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SIMATEI, PETER. "VOYAGING ON THE MISTS OF MEMORY: M. G. VASSANJI AND THE ASIAN QUEST/ION IN EAST AFRICA." English Studies in Africa 43, no. 1 (2000): 29–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00138390008691287.

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Orao, James. "NATIONALISM, SUBVERSIVE HISTORY AND CITIZENSHIP: THE QUEST FOR IDENTITY IN THE POSTCOLONIAL NATION IN M.G. VASSANJI’S THE IN-BETWEEN WORLD OF VIKRAM LALL." Anuari de Filologia. Literatures Contemporànies, no. 10 (January 3, 2021): 69–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1344/aflc2020.10.4.

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One must write for one’s age, so says Sartre, arguing that the writer needs to go beyond a passive reflection of his/her age to want to maintain it or change it (1988: 243). But there is no such thing as a passive reflection where history is concerned and the need for constant questioning of held or handed down beliefs, as propagated by the postmodern approaches, re-situates the writer and his/her audience into newer and more dynamic definitions of and reflections on that age. This paper, by looking at M. G. Vassanji’s kaleidoscopic constellation of characters, an other way to look at Kenya’s history around those defining moments of the struggle for independence and thereafter in his novel The In-Between World of Vikram Lall (2005), seeks to discuss the notions of identity and especially how it is informed by nationalist movements. Vassanji, in all his books, has consistently attempted to situate the often-ignored Afro-Asian within the often ethnocentric African history. In this text, this attempt is placed within the backdrop of several histories and as such it reflects, not passively, but actively and questioningly and at certain points even subversively on what it means to be Kenyan.

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Desai. "“Ambiguity is the driving force or the nuclear reaction behind my creativity”: An E-conversation with M. G. Vassanji." Research in African Literatures 42, no. 3 (2011): 187. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/reseafrilite.42.3.187.

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Sarvan, Charles Ponnuthurai. "M. G. Vassanji's The Gunny Sack: A Reflection on History and the Novel." MFS Modern Fiction Studies 37, no. 3 (1991): 511–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0218.

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Colson. "Metafiction, Dissidence, and Dictatorship in M. G. Vassanji’s The In-Between World of Vikram Lall." Research in African Literatures 51, no. 4 (2021): 156. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/reseafrilite.51.4.09.

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Bhat, Shilpa Daithota. "Delhi, diaspora and religious consciousness: heritage and palimpsest architecture in M. G. Vassanji’s A Place Within: Rediscovering India." Culture and Religion 20, no. 4 (2019): 409–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14755610.2020.1833057.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "M. G. Vassanji"

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Gromov, Mikhail D. "Facing the language border: multi-lingualism in two novels of M. G. Vassanji review." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2015. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-162831.

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The study focuses on the use of various languages including Swahili by the author Moyez G. Vassanji against the English background of his works, by concentrating on two of his ´African´ novels, namely The Gunny Sack and The In-Between World of Vikram Lall. In his novels, Vassanji uses multiple literary devices involving the use of different languages, such as code switching and code shifting among others. The paper analyses the use of these various ´language-mixing´ devices in his novels from a literary point of view. A set of literary instruments allow the author to attain various tasks, such as creating ´local colour´, restoring social relationships, and also expressing the characters´ search for new identity, as well as reflecting the author´s own background as a multi-cultural person and writer.

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Genetsch, Martin [Verfasser]. "Difference and identity in contemporary Anglo-Canadian fiction : M. G. Vassanji, neil Bissoondath, Rohinton Mistry / von Martin Genetsch." 2004. http://d-nb.info/972812725/34.

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Books on the topic "M. G. Vassanji"

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M. G. Vassanji: Essays on His Work. Guernica Editions, Incorporated, 2014.

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Murji, Karim, and Asma Sayed, eds. The Transnational Imaginaries of M. G. Vassanji. Peter Lang US, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3726/b13366.

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Transnational Imaginaries of M. G. Vassanji: Reading Diaspora and Literary Politics. Lang Publishing, Incorporated, Peter, 2018.

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Book chapters on the topic "M. G. Vassanji"

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"Towards a Global South Literary Genealogy: M. G. Vassanji and Joseph Conrad as Secret Sharers in The Book of Secrets and Heart of Darkness." In Taking Stock – Twenty-Five Years of Comparative Literary Research. Brill | Rodopi, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004410350_021.

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"Politics and Poetics of Characterization in M. G. Vassanji’s The Book of Secrets." In Reading Contemporary African Literature. Brill | Rodopi, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789401209373_010.

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Daithota Bhat, Shilpa. "Afropolitanism and the Afro-Asian Diaspora in M. G. Vassanji’s And Home Was Kariakoo." In Afropolitan Literature as World Literature. Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781501342615.ch-004.

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"7. Anti Anti-Asianism and the Politics of Dissent: M. G. Vassanji’s The Gunny Sack." In Commerce with the Universe. Columbia University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.7312/desa16454-008.

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"Rootedness and Globalisation: Identity and Belonging in M. G. Vassanji’s The In-Between World of Vikram Lall." In Border Terrains: World Diasporas in the 21st Century. BRILL, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9781848881174_015.

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