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Writing back to the 'new' India in M.G. Vassanji's


Writing back to the 'new' India in M.G, Vassanji's A Place Within - ORBi

KEYWORDS: DIASPORA,RETURN NARRATIVE,CENTRE,INDIA,M.G.VASSANJI,GAIUTRA BAHADUR. ABSTRACT. India's refashioning of itself as an economic superpower at the ...

Writing back to the 'new' India in M.G. Vassanji's "A Place Within ...

More specifically, I will look at M.G. Vassanji's "A Place Within" (2008) and Gaiutra Bahadur's "Coolie Woman" (2014) as fine instances of texts ...

Indo-centricity and diaspora : writing back to the 'new' India in M. G. ...

Indo-centricity and diaspora : writing back to the 'new' India in M. G. Vassanji's 'A place within : rediscovering India' (2008) and Gaiutra ...

2019. "Indo-centricity and Diaspora: Writing back to the 'new' India in ...

While setting foot for the first time in the dingy immigration hall of Delhi airport, Vassanji self-consciously confesses that he awaits some epiphany of sorts ...

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Indo-centricity and Diaspora: Writing back to the 'new' India in M.G. Vassanji's ... Indian Diaspora; MG Vassanji; Indo-Caribbean Women Writers; Gaiutra Bahadur.

Returning to East Africa via India: On MG Vassanji's And Home Was ...

In his article “Returning to East Africa via India,” Shizen Ozawa examines how M. G. Vassanji further develops his diasporic aesthetics in his latest travel ...

Full article: The Relational Imaginary of M. G. Vassanji's A Place Within

This essay explores life writing in a diasporic context, focusing on MG Vassanji's travel-self narrative A Place Within: Rediscovering India (2008).

On MG Vassanji's Returning to East Africa via India - Purdue e-Pubs

By doing so, Vassanji widens the corpus of an Asian African literature and at the same time brings a new phase in his own diasporic writing. Page 3. Shizen ...

(PDF) MG Vassanji's A Place Within, Thinking through India ...

MG Vassanji's A Place Within, Thinking through India, Transnationally: Still Writing from a Hard Place? August 2018. DOI:10.3726/b13366. In book ...

A Traveler's Nostalgia to Rewrite History of the Lost Land

"Indo-centricity and Diaspora: Writing back to the 'new' India in M.G. Vassanji's "A Place Within: Rediscovering India" and Gaiutra Bahadur's "Coolie Woman: The ...

The (Im-)Possibility of Backtracking in M. G. Vassanji's The In ...

Unlike V. S. Naipaul whose infamous renunciation of the past in A Bend in the River, M. G. Vassanji's decolonization story emphasizes the importance of the ...

The Relational Imaginary of M. G. Vassanji's A Place Within

This essay explores life writing in a diasporic context, focusing on M. G. VassanjiLs travel-self narrative A Place Within: Rediscovering India ...

Reading Diasporic Return in Vassanji and Bissoondath

Although the two novels overlap in their exploration of the Indian diaspora against the backdrop of racially volatile independence movements in former British ...

On the Transformation of Identities in M. G. Vassanji's No New Land ...

This essay analyses how M. G. Vassanji's second novel No New Land (1991), which thematises how Tanzanians of Indian origin emigrate to Canada in the ...

What Is Home? A Conversation with M G Vassanji

... new challenges and pushed back into memory. That feeling about my ... Indian ancestral homeland, which partially claimed me back.

M.G. Vassanji explores what it means to belong in his new essay ...

Born in Kenya to Indian immigrants and raised in Tanzania, M.G. Vassanji has lived most of his adult life in Toronto.

Mythical Journeys and Conflicting Identities in M.G. Vassanji's The ...

MoyezGulamhussein Vassanji, who writes by the abbreviated authorial name M.G. Vassanji, was born in. Kenya to parents of Indian origin and belongs to the ...

The Transnational Imaginaries of M. G. Vassanji - Peter Lang Verlag

Ranging across almost his entire oeuvre, the contributors to this book argue that Vassanji's work should be read as one emerging from a transnational space that ...

M.G. Vassanji travels back to Tanzania - Macleans.ca

All of this Vassanji contemplates in clean, unfussy prose. He probes connections between past and present—and isn't sentimental about either.

Interview with Author M.G. Vassanji - Khabar Magazine

Speaking of India, which Vassanji didn't visit till 1993, what led him to write this travelogue? “Our culture was Asian, partly African, but mostly Asian in ...