York University Libraries Clara Thomas Archives & Special Collections

File consists of a copy of a poetic response to prominent issues in Alfred Corbin’s diary or ‘book of secrets.” Corbin is a character from Vassanji’s novel “The Book of Secrets.”

Reshard Gool : interview

2011-003/001(03)
File
[198-?]

Part of M.G. Vassanji fonds

Research material : South Asian language influence in East Africa

2023-030/014(10)
File
2000-2011

Part of M.G. Vassanji fonds

Research material : Maji-Maji uprising and witch doctors in Africa

2023-030/008(14)
File
2007-2008

Part of M.G. Vassanji fonds

Research material : Africa

2023-030/014(12)
File
Reproduced [20-?], originally created 1952-2011

Part of M.G. Vassanji fonds

File contains articles related to Asian influences in Africa and one copy of a newspaper “Nipashe,” July 1, 2011, published in Swahili.

Research material : Africa

2023-030/014(13)
File
Reproduced [20-?], originally created 1952-2011

Part of M.G. Vassanji fonds

Research material : Africa

2023-030/014(11)
File
Reproduced [20-?], originally created 1957-2011

Part of M.G. Vassanji fonds

Publishers' catalogues

2005-034/021(02)
File
1990-2005

Part of M.G. Vassanji fonds

Proceedings of the eigth Oaxtepec simposium on nuclear physics (includes Vassanji's paper on microscopic calculations)

2005-034/020(03)
File
1985

Part of M.G. Vassanji fonds

Posters

2022-009/013(01)
File
1989-2007

Part of M.G. Vassanji fonds

Poems : typed drafts by Sohdev Khoja and accompanying correspondence

2005-034/019(11)
File
1982

Part of M.G. Vassanji fonds

Poems : handwritten drafts

2005-034/019(10)
File

Part of M.G. Vassanji fonds

Playing cricket or playing God : (the sacred and the profane in the Assassin’s Song) / by Harish Narang

2023-030/012(22)
File
[20-?]

Part of M.G. Vassanji fonds

File consists of an analysis of Vassanji’s worldview in “The Assassin’s Song.”

Place Within : reviews

2022-009/012(14)
File
2008-2009

Part of M.G. Vassanji fonds

Physics, fiction, and song : essay drafts

2023-030/007(12)
File
[ca. 2013]

Part of M.G. Vassanji fonds

File consists of four heavily annotated drafts. Edits and annotations by Vassanji. Essay appears in “Nowhere, Exactly,” to be published in March 2024.

Order of Canada program and menu

2022-009/011(02)
File
10 June 2005

Part of M.G. Vassanji fonds

Order of Canada : documentation and letters of congratulation

2023-030/008(24)
File
2004-2005

Part of M.G. Vassanji fonds

File contains records pertaining to Vassanji’s investiture in the Order of Canada on 10 June 2005.

Off-prints of scientific papers written by Vassanji

2005-034/020(08)
File
1976-1987

Part of M.G. Vassanji fonds

Off-prints of scientific papers written by Vassanji

2005-034/021(01)
File
1979-1987

Part of M.G. Vassanji fonds

Off-prints : article and interview

2023-030/007(03)
File
1994, 2006

Part of M.G. Vassanji fonds

File consists of an article titled, “Community as a Fictional Character,” written by Vassanji, published in Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, vol. 1, no. 1, 1994, and a transcript of an interview with Vassanji for Canadian Literature, autumn 2006.

Off prints and papers (Density dynamics : a generalization of Hartree-Fock theory, Physics 335F : introduction to nuclear physics, a calculation of the deutron static moments in a one-boson-exchange model)

2005-034/020(01)
File
1981-1983

Part of M.G. Vassanji fonds

Nuclear physics notes and papers

2005-034/020(02)
File
1976

Part of M.G. Vassanji fonds

Notes for Haridwar

2008-046/002(05)
File
[200-]

Part of M.G. Vassanji fonds

Notes for a talk on South Asian Canadian literature

2005-034/018(11)
File
[200-?]

Part of M.G. Vassanji fonds

Notebook : manuscript of the trouble with tea

2005-034/018(10)
File
[200-?]

Part of M.G. Vassanji fonds

Notebook

2023-030/007(05)
File
[199-?]

Part of M.G. Vassanji fonds

File consists of a spiral bound notebook containing research notes and short stories or book chapters written by Vassanji.

Notebook

2023-030/007(06)
File
1988-1989

Part of M.G. Vassanji fonds

File consists of a steno notebook containing writing drafts.

Nostalgia : the nostalgia worm : draft manuscript

2023-030/005(06)
File
[ca. 2015]

Part of M.G. Vassanji fonds

File consists of a heavily annotated draft manuscript with several pages of handwritten additions to the text by Vassanji.

Nostalgia : chapters : early drafts

2023-030/004(05)
File
[ca. 2015]

Part of M.G. Vassanji fonds

File consists of partial chapter drafts with a one page, handwritten synopsis of themes and plot in the novel.

Nostalgia : a novel : draft manuscript

2023-030/005(04)
File
[ca. 2015]

Part of M.G. Vassanji fonds

File consists of an edited manuscript.

Nostalgia : a novel : draft manuscript

2023-030/004(06)
File
[ca. 2015]

Part of M.G. Vassanji fonds

File consists of a clean draft manuscript with research notes by the author on the last page.

Nostalgia : a novel : draft manuscript

2023-030/004(07)
File
[ca. 2015]

Part of M.G. Vassanji fonds

File consists of a heavily annotated draft manuscript.

Nostalgia : a novel : draft manuscript

2023-030/004(09)
File
[ca. 2015]

Part of M.G. Vassanji fonds

File consists of a clean draft manuscript with the exception of an alternative title, “The Nostalgia Worm,” crossed out and “a novel” added on the title page.

Nostalgia : a novel : draft manuscript