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M.G. Vassanji fonds
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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.

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collections of short stories, and non-fiction; scripts for an unfinished television project, "The Abdullah quartet"; unpublished drafts of poems and fragments of stories; research material on politics, religion, violence, and society in India from historical and contemporary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.

Nostalgia : a novel : draft manuscript

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.

Notebook

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

Notebook

File consists of a steno notebook containing writing drafts.

Off-prints : article and interview

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.

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.

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