The Presentation Of History In The Book Of Secrets By M G Vassanji
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The Presentation Of History In The Book Of Secrets By M G Vassanji
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Author : Tim Wenninger
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2018-02-20
The Presentation Of History In The Book Of Secrets By M G Vassanji written by Tim Wenninger and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
Essay from the year 2017 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Osnabrück, language: English, abstract: In his novel "The Book of Secrets" M.G. Vassanji takes a curious approach at the topic of how history is presented, how it could and should be reconstructed and how it influences characters’ identities and perceptions. Finding out the truth in history is not always easy. Especially in this novel, since the narrative changes between quite a variety of different angles and perspectives and is mainly driven by subjective and personal histories of the characters. This includes a diary, letters, personal experiences and thoughts. The perception of history and the narrative are going to be one focus of this paper. How can truth be extracted from a history which is shaped by subjective and personal opinions and observations? Can there even be simple, linear, historical truth? Another core area of this paper deals with the question of how the characters’ thoughts and actions are being influenced by their personal history, their cultural background and confrontations with a new culture. Are social or cultural superiorities used to an advantage in order to manipulate other people? In addition to that, it will slightly be touched upon the characters’ sense of origin and how living in a new environment and interacting with other people has an impact on their personality. This paper will concentrate on the three main characters namely Corbin, Pipa, and Pius. Focusing on their personal struggles, experiences, desires and their relationship with other characters. Analysing their perspectives will help to identify their true motifs and therefore giving more implications and clues on how to solve some of the secrets. Before the conclusion, the pasts influence on the present will also be slightly touched upon.
The Book Of Secrets
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Author : M.G. Vassanji
language : en
Publisher: Picador
Release Date : 2015-12-29
The Book Of Secrets written by M.G. Vassanji and has been published by Picador this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-29 with Fiction categories.
In 1988, a retired schoolteacher named Pius Fernandes receives an old diary found in the back room of an East African shop. Written in 1913 by a British colonial administrator, the diary captivates Fernandes, who begins to research the coded history he encounters in its terse, laconic entries. What he uncovers is a story of forbidden liaisons and simmering vengeances, family secrets and cultural exiles--a story that leads him on an investigative journey through his own past and Africa's.
The Gunny Sack
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Author : Moyez Vassanji
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2024-01-01
The Gunny Sack written by Moyez Vassanji and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-01 with Fiction categories.
Winner of the 1990 Commonwealth First Novel Prize (Africa). The Gunny Sack follows the bizarre tale of an old and unremarkable bag and the life changing secrets within it. In exile from Tanzania, Salim Juma is given a gunny sack by his beloved, but strange, great-aunt. The bag takes him back to his childhood, when he was first mesmerised by the peculiar mementos inside. He soon begins to piece together the stories hidden within, only to discover the truth behind a fateful series of events that changed his family forever. The stories that follow stretch across four generations of Salim's family, tracing their footsteps and unravelling their loves, betrayals, and incredible misadventures. The Gunny Sack is an extraordinary chronicle into the experiences of Indian migrants in Africa as they struggled under changing power structures, from German invasions to British colonialism.
The In Between World Of Vikram Lall
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Author : M.G. Vassanji
language : en
Publisher: Anchor Canada
Release Date : 2009-02-24
The In Between World Of Vikram Lall written by M.G. Vassanji and has been published by Anchor Canada this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-24 with Fiction categories.
Giller Prize-winner M.G. Vassanji’s The In-Between World of Vikram Lall is a haunting novel of corruption and regret that brings to life the complexity and turbulence of Kenyan society in the last five decades. Rich in sensuous detail and historical insight, this is a powerful story of passionate betrayals and political violence, racial tension and the strictures of tradition, told in elegant, assured prose. The novel begins in 1953, with eight-year-old Vikram Lall a witness to the celebrations around the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, just as the Mau Mau guerilla war for independence from Britain begins to gain strength. In a land torn apart by idealism, doubt, political upheaval and terrible acts of violence, Vic and his sister Deepa must find their place among a new generation. Neither colonists nor African, neither white nor black, the Indian brother and sister find themselves somewhere in between in their band of playmates: Bill and Annie, British children, and Njoroge, an African boy. These are the relationships that will shape the rest of their lives. We follow Vikram through the changes in East African society, the immense promise of the fifties and sixties. But when that hope is betrayed by the corruption and violence of the following decades, Vic is drawn into the Kenyatta government’s orbit of graft and power-broking. Njoroge, his childhood friend, can abandon neither the idealism of his youth nor his love for Vic’s sister Deepa. But neither the idealism of the one nor the passive cynicism of the other can avert the tragedies that await them. The In-Between World of Vikram Lall is a profound and careful examination of one man’s search for his place in the world, with themes that have run through Vassanji’s work: the nature of community in a volatile society, the relations between colony and colonizer, and the inescapable presence of the past. It is also, finally, a deeply personal book speaking to the people who are in the in-between.
Amriika
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Author : M.G. Vassanji
language : en
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Release Date : 2012-08-07
Amriika written by M.G. Vassanji and has been published by McClelland & Stewart this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-07 with Fiction categories.
Amriika is a novel of betrayal, disillusionment, and discovery set in America during three highly charged decades in the nation’s history. In the late sixties, Ramji, a student from Dar es Salaam, East Africa, arrives in an America far different from the one he dreamed about, one caught up in anti-war demonstrations, revolutionary lifestyles, and spiritual quests. As Ramji finds himself pulled by the tumultuous currents of those troubled times, he is swept up in events whose consequences will haunt him for years to come. Decades later in a changed America, having recently left a marriage and a suburban existence, an older Ramji, passionately in love, finds himself drawn into a set of circumstances which hold terrifying reminders of the past and its unanswered questions.
Reading Contemporary African Literature
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Author : Reuben Makayiko Chirambo
language : en
Publisher: Rodopi
Release Date : 2013
Reading Contemporary African Literature written by Reuben Makayiko Chirambo and has been published by Rodopi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with History categories.
Reading Contemporary African Literature brings together scholarship on, critical debates about, and examples of reading African literature in all genres – poetry, fiction, and drama including popular culture. The anthology offers studies of African literature from interdisciplinary perspectives that employ sociological, historical, and ethnographic besides literary analysis of the literatures. It has assembled critical and researched essays on a range of topics, theoretical and empirical, by renowned critics and theorists of African literature that evaluate and provide examples of reading African literature that should be of interest to academics, researchers, and students of African literature, culture, and history amongst other subjects. Some of the essays examine authors that have received little or no attention to date in books on recent African literature. These essays provide new insights and scholarship that should broaden and deepen our understanding and appreciation of African literature.
The Encyclopedia Of Twentieth Century Fiction 3 Volume Set
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Author : Brian W. Shaffer
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2011-01-18
The Encyclopedia Of Twentieth Century Fiction 3 Volume Set written by Brian W. Shaffer and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-18 with Literary Criticism categories.
This Encyclopedia offers an indispensable reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English-language. With nearly 500 contributors and over one million words, it is the most comprehensive and authoritative reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English language. Contains over 500 entries of 1000-3000 words written in lucid, jargon-free prose, by an international cast of leading scholars Arranged in three volumes covering British and Irish Fiction, American Fiction, and World Fiction, with each volume edited by a leading scholar in the field Entries cover major writers (such as Saul Bellow, Raymond Chandler, John Steinbeck, Virginia Woolf, A.S. Byatt, Samual Beckett, D.H. Lawrence, Zadie Smith, Salman Rushdie, V.S. Naipaul, Nadine Gordimer, Alice Munro, Chinua Achebe, J.M. Coetzee, and Ngûgî Wa Thiong’o) and their key works Examines the genres and sub-genres of fiction in English across the twentieth century (including crime fiction, Sci-Fi, chick lit, the noir novel, and the avant-garde novel) as well as the major movements, debates, and rubrics within the field, such as censorship, globalization, modernist fiction, fiction and the film industry, and the fiction of migration, diaspora, and exile
Taking Stock Twenty Five Years Of Comparative Literary Research
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2019-10-29
Taking Stock Twenty Five Years Of Comparative Literary Research written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
This commemorative volume offers a retrospective of the discipline as mirrored in the series Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft since its founding in 1993. Leading scholars examine issues of world literature, the history of ideas, gender studies, aesthetics and literary translation.
South Asian Diaspora
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Author : Devika Khanna Narula
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
South Asian Diaspora written by Devika Khanna Narula and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Assassin S Song
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Author : M.G. Vassanji
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2009-03-25
The Assassin S Song written by M.G. Vassanji and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-25 with Fiction categories.
In the aftermath of the brutal violence that gripped western India in 2002, Karsan Dargawalla, heir to Pirbaag – the shrine of a mysterious, medieval sufi – begins to tell the story of his family. His tale opens in the 1960s: young Karsan is next in line after his father to assume lordship of the shrine, but he longs to be “just ordinary.” Despite his father's pleas, Karsan leaves home behind for Harvard, and, eventually, marriage and a career. Not until tragedy strikes, both in Karsan's adopted home in Canada and in Pirbaag, is he drawn back across thirty years of separation and silence to discover what, if anything, is left for him in India.