The Pull Between Old and New Communities in M.G. Vassanji's Novels of Migration: No New Land (1991) and Amriika (1999)

Authors

  • Tina Steiner University of Stellenbosch

Abstract

"Both novels...explore the ambivalent processes of negotiating transcultural identity. This negotiation happens between the boundary markers of the security of the diaspora community...on the one hand and integration and new affiliations to communities in the host countries on the other....No New Land...focuses more on the characters' privileging of their 'Muslim East Africanness' within the secure but also, at times, restricting diaspora community and...Amriika...explores possibilities of transcultural identities that are open to new affiliations with different communities in the host country."

Published

2005-09-19

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