Recent Articles

The following might be of interest, in relation to my work. These are all recent.

1.  “Am I a Canadian Writer?” Guest editorial, Canadian Literature 190, Autumn 2006.

2. “History, Memory, Home.” An exchange with Susan Fisher. Ibid.

3. “I was a city boy, a soft Asian” or: Learning to live with graft. New Internationalist December 2006.

4. “Some thoughts of a writer at large.” Talk given at various places, most recently, University of Puerto Rico.

Recent Studies

1. A recent thesis, “The Worlds In-Between of an Asian African Writer: A Postcolonial Reading of Selected Novels of M G Vassanji.” J K S Makokha. Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya. 2006. see www.wairua.co.nz/ruth/docs/JKS%20THESIS.pdf

2. A documentary: The In-Between World of M G Vassanji. Cogent-Benger Productions, Toronto, 2006.

3. A recent thesis, The Texture of Identity (Toronto: TSAR, 2007) discusses the work of Neil Bissoondath, Rohinton Mistry, and M G Vassanji.

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