[ilds] M.G. Vassanji

[Bruce Redwine]

James,

Thanks for tantalizing references to Vassanji (2015) and the other references to articles by Kaczvinsky (2007), Kersnowski (2010), and Morrison (2013)—all writing on Durrell.  The database “Project Muse,” however, seems only accessible to academics, and I am not one.  This is the problem with scholarship that is confined to specialists with special privileges, although I believe Kersnowski’s article was uploaded on the listserv years ago.  Kaczvinsky’s essay looks interesting and topical:  “Memlik’s House and Mountolive’s Uniform:  Orientalism, Ornamentalism, and The Alexandria Quartet.”  We’ve discussed Said’s Orientalism before.

Bruce




> On May 10, 2016, at 3:00 PM, James Gifford <james.d.gifford at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> A quick note before I get to the promised comment on Tunc for Bruce...
> 
> Those who were at On Miracle Ground XII in 2002 (!!) may remember M.G. Vassanji's excellent keynote "The Boy in the Street: A View from Across."  He's evidently just published a revised version of it fourteen years later as "Looking at Them: The View Across the Street" in /Transition/ 119 (2016), pp. 22–36:
> 
>  http://muse.jhu.edu/article/614084
> 
> I've read through it here on a sunny patio, and it's as witty as the original (the ts. for which is held at the University of Victoria).  He recounts first watching the Cukor film "Justine" and then moving on the novels of the Quartet and their various attachments to his own novels, like /No New Land/, and how "For many years my City lay in my imagination like an open wound, raw and throbbing, until I was able to reinvent it and thus heal the wound."
> 
> This may be of interest to many here.
> 
> All best,
> James
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