Reading M.G. Vassanji’s the in –Between World of Vikram Lall as an Allegory of the Nation

Seraphine Chepkosgei

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Reading M.G. Vassanji’s the in –Between World of Vikram Lall as an Allegory of the Nation

Seraphine Chepkosgei

Published in International Journal of Literature and Arts (Volume 2, Issue 2)

Received: 16 December 2013 Published: 20 March 2014

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This paper will explore the use of allegory as a trope in the writing of East African Asian writer, M.G. Vassanji. We shall apply Fredric Jameson’s Allegory of the Nation in order to tease out the various ways in which the inner universe of the Kenyan nation is contested and constructed as well as the various enunciations of meanings that generate/are generated and their implications.

Published in	International Journal of Literature and Arts (Volume 2, Issue 2)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijla.20140202.13
Page(s)	40-43
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Nation, Nationhood, Identity

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Seraphine Chepkosgei. Reading M.G. Vassanji’s the in –Between World of Vikram Lall as an Allegory of the Nation. Int J Lit Arts. 2014;2(2):40-43. doi: 10.11648/j.ijla.20140202.13

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Seraphine Chepkosgei

Department of Literature, Theatre and Film Studies, Moi University

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