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

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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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Keywords

Nation, Nationhood, Identity

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  • Department of Literature, Theatre and Film Studies, Moi University

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