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M.G. Vassanji

Essays On His Works

edited by Asma Sayed

Publisher
Guernica Editions
Initial publish date
Mar 2014
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781550719963
    Publish Date
    Mar 2014
    List Price
    $20.00

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Asma Sayed, PhD, researches Canadian literature in the context of global multiculturalism. Her current research focuses on Islamophobia and the image of Muslim women in popular culture, particularly in Indian cinema. She teaches women’s and gender studies, cultural studies, communication studies and comparative literature at a number of western Canadian universities. Her recent edited works include M. G. Vassanji: Essays on His Works (2014), Writing Diaspora: Transnational Memories, Identities and Cultures (2014), and World on a Maple Leaf: a Treasury of Cana- dian Multicultural Folktales (2011).

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Editorial Reviews

Like Conrad, Vassanji is a writer whose identity was displaced and transformed by empire, who came to writing later in life, composed his work in a language foreign to his birth and chronicled the in-between lives of global citizens who seemed to belong nowhere. - John Barber