Vassanji, M. G. (Moyez)
About M. G. Vassanji
Reviews
Foden, Giles. "Keeper of the Shrine." The Guardian, 6 Sep. 2008
Banerjea, Sravan. "American Graffiti." Outlook India, 10 Jul. 2000
Interviews
Bower, Rachel et al. "An Interview with M. G. Vassanji." Wasafiri, vol. 26, no. 2, 2011
Desai, Gaurav. "An E-Conversation with M. G. Vassanji." Research in African Literatures, vol. 42, no. 3, 2011
Fischer, Susan. "History, Memory, Home: An Exchange with M. G. Vassanji." Canadian Literature, no. 190, 2006
Vivan, Itala. "A Writer In-between Worlds: An Interview with M. G. Vassanji." Anglistica, vol. 9, no. 2, 2005
Criticism
Iyer, Nalini. "Multiple Migrations: Partition and South Asian Canadian Writing." South Asian Review, vol. 37, no. 1, 2016
Sen, Krishna. "Nation, 'No-Nation' and 'Desh': Post-Orientalism and the National Allegory in Rushdie's Shalimar the Clown and Vassanji's The Assassin's Song." Writing India Anew: Indian English Fiction 2000-2010, 2013
Rosenberg, Aaron. "Traditions, Trajectories and Transformative Migrations: The Multifarious Diasporic Contextualities of Nair, Nazareth and Vassanji's Fictions." JALA, vol. 6, no. 2, 2012
Hand, Felicity. "From Inscrutable Indians to Asian Africans." India in the World, 2011
Jones, Stephanie. "The Politics of Love and History: Asian Women and African Men in East African Literature." Research in African Literatures, vol. 42, no. 3, 2011
Ojwang, Dan. "'Eat Pig and become a Beast': Food, Drink, and Diaspora in East African Indian Writing." Research in African Literatures, vol. 42, no. 3, 2011
Simatei, Peter. "Diasporic Memories and National Histories in East African Asian Writing." Research in African Literatures, vol. 42, no. 3, 2011
Göbel, Walter. "Homes Lost and Found: Three Expatriate Indian Novelists." Constructions of Home, 2010
Nesbitt, L. "Postcolonial Void: Achebe, Vassanji, Wa Thiongó." New Black & African Writing: A Critical Anthology, vol. 1, 2009
Kalliney, Peter. "East African Literature and the Politics of Global Reading." Research in African Literatures, vol. 39, no. 1, 2008
Cooper, Brenda. "A Gunny Sack, Chants and Jingles, a Fan and a Black Trunk: The Coded Language of the Everyday in a Post-Colonial African Novel: M. G. Vassanji's The Gunny Sack." Africa Quaterly, vol. 44, no. 3, 2004
Davis, Rocio G. "Negotiating Place/Re-Creating Home: Short-Story Cycles by Naipaul, Mistry, and Vassanji." Telling Stories: Postcolonial Short Fiction in English, 2001
Ojwang, Dan Odhiambo. "Between Ancestries and Amarapurs: Immigrant Asianness in M. G. Vassanji's Fiction." Re-Imagining Africa: New Critical Perspectives, 2001
De Mel, Neloufer. "Mediating Origins: Moyez Vassanji and the Discursivities of Migrant Identity." Essays on African Writing 2, 1995
Works
Novels
Nostalgia (2016)
The Magic of Saida (2012)
The Assassin's Song (2007)
The In-between World of Vikram Lall (2003)
Amriika (1999)
The Book of Secrets (1994)
No New Land (1991)
The Gunny Sack (1989)
Short Story Collections
When She Was Queen (2005)
Uhuru Street (1992)
Essays/Articles/Non-Ficton/Short Stories
And Home Was Kariakoo (2014)
A Place Within (2008)
"An Expat in London." Macleans, 16 Mar. 2009
"Am I a Canadian Writer?" Canadian Literature, no. 190, 2006
"Life at the Margins: In the Thick of Multiplicity." In Between the Lines, 1996
Audio and Audiovisual Material
M. G. Vassanji on His Novel The Assassin's Song. YouTube, 5 Oct. 2007