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- Title
M.G. Vassanji's The Gunny Sack and The Art of Interplaying History.
- Authors
Manjula K. T.; Gaonkar, Babu
- Abstract
M.G. Vassanji is a Canada based Asian-African writer. He has authored seven novels, two short story collections, a travelogue and edited one essay collection. Migrations and its impact on people always remained his thematic concern. More over he is very much concerned about double and triple diaspora and its impact on the people concerned. The Gunny Sack is M.G. Vassanji's the first and the best of his novels; considered 'an African answer to Midnight's Children'. The Gunny Sack presents South Asian East Africans 'trishanku' state in East Africa amidst postcolonial betrayal and political ambiguities. Vassanji has artistically made use of the history to present South Asians cause in East Africa; probably this made him one of the best post-colonial writers.
- Subjects
GUNNY Sack, The (Book); VASSANJI, M. G., 1950-; 20TH century literature -- History &; criticism; AFRICAN literature -- History &; criticism; POSTCOLONIALISM in literature; AFRICAN diaspora in literature
- Publication
Labyrinth: An International Refereed Journal of Postmodern Studies, 2014, Vol 5, Issue 4, p167
- ISSN
0976-0814
- Publication type
Literary Criticism