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Author:   Karim Murji ,  Asma Sayed
Publisher:   Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint:   Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   6
Weight:   0.420kg
ISBN:  

9781433147524

ISBN 10:   1433147521
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   20 July 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Preface – Asma Sayed and Karim Murji: Introduction: Locating M.G. Vassanji in a Transnational Context – John Clement Ball: ""An Open Wound"": The Memory and Legacy of Partition in Vassanji’s Writings on India – Delphine Munos: Thinking through India, Transnationally: Still Writing from a Hard Place? – Vera Alexander: Agents of Impermanence: The Visitor Figure in A Place Within – Jonathan Locke Hart: Travel as a Way Inward: Vassanji’s A Place Within – Gaurav Desai: ‘Ye Zindagi Usiki Hai’: Illicit Desire and (Post)colonial Romance in The Book of Secrets – Neelima Kanwar: The Sacred as a Theme in The Assassin’s Song and The Magic of Saida – Jonathan Rollins: Roots/Routes and Rhizomes: Diasporic Tourism and the Return of the Native Stranger in The Magic of Saida – Remmy Shiundu Barasa: Narrating Violence as a Metaphor of Colonial Enterprise in The Book of Secrets – Aaron Louis Rosenberg: Riding the Third Rail: Perpetual Movement and Imagined Return in The In-Between World of Vikram Lall – Shizen Ozawa: ""This Was My Country—How Could It Not Be?"": On the Significance of Travel in The In-Between World of Vikram Lall – Godwin Siundu: Journeys and Re-membered Communities in Amriika – Mala Pandurang: Reading Vassanji’s Women: Reconstructing an Alternate Historiography – Contributors – Index."

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The editors and contributors to this collection succeed in highlighting the multiple dimensions to Vassanji's work but do so in linking it to ever-present issues of humanity and being in the globalized world as crossing geographical, political, social, and cultural boundaries. This volume provides a much needed addition to scholarship on Vassanji's work in its consideration of the complexities of systems of identification and belonging that breakdown the notion of the political as personal and the personal as political within a transnational, diasporic and cross-cultural context. (Cristina Santos, Author of Unbecoming Female Monsters: Witches, Vampires and Virgins)

The editors and contributors to this collection succeed in highlighting the multiple dimensions to Vassanji's work but do so in linking it to ever-present issues of humanity and being in the globalized world as crossing geographical, political, social, and cultural boundaries. This volume provides a much needed addition to scholarship on Vassanji's work in its consideration of the complexities of systems of identification and belonging that breakdown the notion of the political as personal and the personal as political within a transnational, diasporic and cross-cultural context. Cristina Santos, author of Unbecoming Female Monsters: Witches, Vampires and Virgins The Transnational Imaginaries of M. G. Vassanji is a long overdue academic study of M. G. Vassanji's work. Vassanji is one of the most category-defying, unsettling, yet rewarding writers of the contemporary age. In writing that cannot but resonate for our divided Brexit/Trump world, Karim Murji and Asma Sayed and their contributors show that this multivalent, border-crossing author nonetheless produces imaginative work replete with a singularity of vision. Claire Chambers, University of York, UK This is a rich and timely collection of essays. The excellent scholars contributing to this book do much more than celebrate M. G. Vassanji's critically acclaimed and popular writing. Attending to the singularity and multiplicity of his work, they bring important new insights to Vassanji's novels, short stories, and life writings. This book will feel particularly vital to anyone with an interest in story telling from and about East Africa, South Asia and North America; and not least because it is energised by a shared and urgent commitment to a 'transnational' understanding of geography and history. This is an important book for any reader with an interest in stories about location and dislocation, and about what transnational storytelling might mean for being postcolonial, diasporic, or worldly in any way. Most importantly, perhaps, the book is vibrantly attuned to Vassanji's 'deeply humanistic outlook'. Through the rigorous exercise of close literary, historical, geographical and political analyses, the authors of The Transnational Imaginaries of M. G. Vassanji pursue an acute engagement with what literary culture means for being human today. Stephanie Jones, University of Southampton

Author Information

Karim Murji is a professor in the Graduate School at the University of West London and was previously based at the Open University, UK. His recent books include Racism, Policy and Politics (2017) and, edited with John Solomos, Theories of Race and Ethnicity: Contemporary Debates and Perspectives (2015). With Sarah Neal, he is the Editor of Current Sociology. Asma Sayed is a professor in the Department of English at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Canada. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on Indian Ocean studies, postcolonial literature, and South Asian diaspora in Canada. Her work has appeared in leading academic journals, including the Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, Canadian Literature, South Asian Review, Transnational Literature, and the Journal of South Asian Diaspora. Her recent books include M. G. Vassanji: Essays on His Work (2014), Writing Diaspora: Transnational Memories, Identities and Cultures (2014), and Screening Motherhood in Contemporary World Cinema (2016).

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