[ilds] M.G. Vassanji

[James Gifford]

Hi Bruce,

Yes, the "pay wall" is an issue...  The open access movement is growing, 
but it has not really blossomed yet (for instance, I see /Transition/ 
gives one article from each issue as Open Access, but alas not this one 
-- many other journals, especially those using the OJS Open Journal 
Systems, will release their materials on an open access basis a year 
after publication).  For what it's worth, many academics discuss this 
with strong opinions, but the pressures of tenure and advancement point 
to particular venues more than others, and that often means readers 
either need to buy a book or get a subscription.  I know you're a 
defender of copyright, and alas, this is a part of it.  I can say that 
once I'm promoted to full professor, I have no intention of publishing 
behind a paywall.

For what it's worth, it's quite possible your alumni association has 
access for you.  For instance, FDU doesn't subscribe to Project Muse 
(though it does several others), so I access it as an alumnus through 
UAlberta.  Ditto for Palgrave's "Connect" platform, which I get through 
SFU (albeit I have to be on campus to download those books).

Another related resource that just went online (and that has some 
Durrellian content) is the Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism:

  https://www.rem.routledge.com/

You can search and see a preview for free, and perhaps your alumni 
association will recommend it to your local library.  However, the 
accompanying Linked Modernisms resource (based on the REM metadata) is 
entirely Open Access:

  http://linkedmods.uvic.ca/

Those are both still in their first release, and the REM has limited 
itself to its first 1,000 entries, but they're worth a perusal.

All best,
James

On 2016-05-12 12:00 PM, Bruce Redwine wrote:
> 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
>> <mailto: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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