QUEST FOR IDENTITY IN THE NOVELS OF M.G. VASSANJI

Abstract

Abstract: - An in-depth analysis of M.G. Vassanji's novels shows how the characters change in identity and attitude as they travel and double migrate. The characters' constant fear of not fitting in forces them to seek their identities in the new location. M. G. Vassani's story deals with a never-ending search for identity because of an unmet dream they had before their relocation that has become a persistent ghost. The imaginative worlds of diasporic authors like M.G. Vassanji are shaped by this awareness of perpetual exile, the feeling that we belong but no longer do, and a need to return to our place of origin. Arnold Itwaru's aforementioned statement sums up the circumstances facing Indo-Canadian writers from Africa and the Caribbean. M. G. Vassanji, an African Indian who immigrated to Canada in 1978 and joined the University of Toronto as a lecturer and research associate, also revisits his heritage.