INDIAN OCEAN NOMADIC DIASPORAS: Destabilizing Master Narratives of Belonging in MG Vassanji's Short Fiction.

D Ortega - Kritika Kultura, 2023 - search.ebscohost.com
MG Vassanji's evocative short fiction delves into the complex and intertwined tapestry of
cultures that Indian Ocean communities represent. His characters lead border and nomadic …

“My Mother Was a Fish”: Racial Trauma, Precarity, and Grief in K. Sello Duiker's Thirteen Cents

T Njovane - Research in African Literatures, 2021 - JSTOR
In this article, I explore manifestations of (inter) subjectivity in relation to racial trauma and
grief as portrayed through the child protagonist of K. Sello Duiker's Thirteen Cents, azure …

Writing Diasporic In-Betweenness: South Asians in Colonial and Postcolonial East Africa in the Novels of MG Vassanji 1

G Binju - Translation and Decolonisation - taylorfrancis.com
Two of MG Vassanji's novels, The Gunny Sack and The In-Between World of Vikram Lall,
examine the colonial East African littoral through stories of the South Asian diaspora in the …

Metafiction, Dissidence, and Dictatorship in MG Vassanji's The In-Between World of Vikram Lall

RL Colson - Research in African Literatures, 2021 - search.proquest.com
This paper examines the metafictional frame narration of MG Vassanji's The In-Between
World of Vikram Lall (2003) in light of the novel's treatment of Kenyan history and …

[PDF][PDF] " With this past before you, all around you": On the Transformation of Identities in MG Vassanji's No New Land.

S Ozawa - Wenshan Review of Literature & Culture, 2019 - wreview.org
This essay analyses how MG Vassanji's second novel No New Land (1991), which
thematises how Tanzanians of Indian origin emigrate to Canada in the nineteen-seventies …

" This Was My Country--How Could It Not Be?": On the Significance of Travel in MG Vassanji's The In-Between World of Vikram Lall

S Ozawa - Tamkang Review, 2016 - go.gale.com
MG Vassanji's The In-between World of Vikram Lall describes how the life of the eponymous
protagonist, a third-generation Asian African, is affected by Kenya's independence struggle …