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M.G. Vassanji - Essays on His Works Volume 41

English · Paperback / Softback

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This collection was born of a conviction that Vassanji's contributions to the global literary scene merit more in-depth scholarly notice. The articles herein, most of which are comparative in focus, provide various interpretations of Vassanji's writings through a diversity of theoretical frameworks. The fulcrum of much of this research comes back to issues of globalisation, transnationalism, identity, post-colonialism, cosmopolitanism and diaspora. It should also be noted that, while many critics have tried to fit Vassanji and his writing into national perimeters identifying him as Canadian, others as African or Indian, or all of these, none of the writers in this book argue that Vassanji, or his works, belong to any particular national paradigm. Rather, the articles recognise Vassanji's engagement with transnational issues and his preoccupation with history and politics, and concerns of home, migration, exile, loss, belonging, dislocation, violence, trauma, and identity as central to his writing. Included are a new and detailed interview with Vassanji and a previously unpublished article, authored by Vassanji himself. Among the contributors: Annie Cottier, Jonathan Hart, Jonathan Rollins, Warris Vianni, Amin Malak, and Nancy E Batty.

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Assisted by Asma Sayed (Editor)
Publisher Guernica Editions
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 15.03.2014
 
EAN 9781550719963
ISBN 978-1-55071-996-3
No. of pages 200
Dimensions 109 mm x 175 mm x 25 mm
Weight 295 g
Series Essential Writers
ESSENTIAL WRITERS SERIES
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature
Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies

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