The Transnational Imaginaries Of M. G. Vassanji: Diaspora, Literature, And Culture (Interdisciplinary Studies In Diasporas)

This collection of scholarly articles engages with, analyzes, and appreciatively critiques the fiction and non-fiction writing of M. G. Vassanji, a multiple award-winning author. Vassanji's works have a sense of multiple connections across four continents: Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America. He challenges the imperial centers of Western powers through the content of his work and his deeply-felt humanist engagements with the politics of displacement, settlement, partition and postcolonialism. Ranging across almost his entire oeuvre, the essays in this book argue that Vassanji's work should be read as one emerging from a transnational space that connects people, places and issues across the world. Collectively, the essays in this book, using a range of theoretical frameworks, claim that Vassanji's work fits into and also goes beyond the usual categorizations, structures and styles of analysis applied to writers from the colonies.

• | Author: Karim Murji|Asma Sayed, Asma Sayed
• | Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• | Publication Date: Jul 20, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 232 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/LITERARY CRITICISM
• | ISBN-10: 1433147521
• | ISBN-13: 9781433147524