Literature Research

Proposed title : M .G . Vassanji , The Book of Secrets

Thesis : Set in East Africa , and along a cultural faultline that fissured a country split by two colonial rulers (Britian and Germany , this novel explores the plight of an indigenous culture pushed into silence . In the story of Miriamu , a woman whose murder resonates through the personal and collective history of the place , Vassanji produces a powerful symbol of the lingering history of oppressive politics and inevitability of resistance , even when trapped in silence

Working bibliography

Kortenaar , Neil . Between Ethics and Politics

' Canadian Literature 182 (2004 : 181-200

Rhodes , Shane . Frontier Reading : Reading Books in The Book of Secrets ' Ariel 29 .1 (1998

179-194

Tifflin , Helen , Griffiths , Gareth , and Ashcroft , Bill . The Empire Writes Back : Theory and

Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures . New York : Routledge , 2002...