[ilds] M.G. Vassanji

[Bruce Redwine]

James,

Thanks for the links.  That’s helpful.  The “open access” (OA) movement is indeed growing, particularly in areas like Classics but not so much in English literature.  I’ll mention one other source:  Academia.edu, which is not restricted to “academics” but includes anyone who wants to sign into the database and provide a “profile” or entry.  It’s free.  That platform enables one to upload his/her publications or whatever and make them freely available to all and sundry.  I’ll note that Donald Kaczvinsky has an entry (search under his name) and has made his article, “Memlik’s House and Mountolive’s Uniform:  Orientalism, Ornamentalism, and The Alexandria Quartet,” available for downloading.  Vassanji does not have any papers available.

Bruce





> On May 12, 2016, at 4:12 PM, James Gifford <james.d.gifford at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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/ <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/ <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 <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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