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M.G. Vassanji fonds
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M.G. Vassanji fonds

  • F0485
  • Fonds
  • 1969-2021

Fonds consists of research material, notes, drafts, edited manuscripts, and proof pages for M.G. Vassanji's novels, collections of short stories, and non-fiction; scripts for an unfinished television project, "The Abdullah quartet"; unpublished drafts of poems and fragments of stories; research material on politics, religion, violence, and society in India from historical and contemporary perspectives, and arrangements for Vassanji's visits to India; drafts of his articles for Maclean's on social unrest in Africa; and drafts of his lectures on writing, cultural identities, and diversity given in Canada and Great Britain. The fonds includes professional correspondence with publishers and others, copies of articles related to his work, memorabilia about his literary career, publicity material related to his writing and to awards, and correspondence regarding his work as a teacher of writing. The fonds also contains material regarding his academic and professional activities as a nuclear physicist including course outlines, notes, essays, and offprints of articles authored or co-authored by Vassanji.

Vassanji, M.G.

Knowing South Asia Workshop

File consists of correspondence, travel arrangements, workshop program and an interview transcript between Vassanji and two members of the South Asian Studies Council, Yale University.

Introduction : The Street

File consists of two drafts of the introduction, written by Vassanji, to the 2007 edition of Mordecai Richler’s book “The Street.”

Interviews

File consists of several interview questions that include Vassanji’s handwritten answers.

Gandhi : lecture drafts

File consists of several drafts of a lecture presented by Vassanji for the Gandhi Society, in Calgary, Alberta, 2013.

Forward : Gandhi : an autobiography

File consists of two drafts of Vassanji’s forward in the book “Gandhi: An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth” by Mohandas K. Gandhi. The edition of this book with Vassanji’s forward was published in 2011.

Festival America

File consists of a program and correspondence for Vassanji’s attendance at the festival.

Essays : annotated drafts

File consists of three essay drafts: “A Novelist’s Adventures in Nonfiction: Writing About India,” “The Novelist and the Phantom of History,” and “The View from Across the Street: The City and its Other.” All three are heavily annotated by Vassanji and others.

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