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Psychological Dilemma of Trans-Border Migration in Moyez Vassanji’s novels The In-Between World of Vikram Lall and The Gunny Sack

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  • Denilson Mairura Onsengo

    (Department of Languages and Literature, Kaimosi Friends University, Kenya)

  • Remmy Shiundu

    (Department of Languages and Literature, Kaimosi Friends University, Kenya)

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Discourses of displacement, dislocation and uprootedness of diasporic communities especially among the immigrant Indian community in East Africa have attracted a great deal of debates as well as scholarly contribution in the last three decades. However, the psychological and spatial dilemma in which various characters find themselves in has little scholarly attention. This paper conceptualizes this dilemma in form of journeys, paradoxes as well as experiences of the immigrant Asian as fictionalized in M.G Vassanji’s two novels n The In-Between World of Vikram Lall and The Gunny Sack. The novels were purposively sampled to meet the objective of the paper. The discussion was arrived at through close reading, analysis and interpretation of the selected novels. The discussion in informed by postcolonial theory as propounded by Homi Bhabha. The paper finds that the immigrants’ trans-border journey is marked by psychological and spatial dilemma as well as emotional incubuses.

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  • Denilson Mairura Onsengo & Remmy Shiundu, 2023. "Psychological Dilemma of Trans-Border Migration in Moyez Vassanji’s novels The In-Between World of Vikram Lall and The Gunny Sack," International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS), vol. 7(2), pages 1278-1286, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:bcp:journl:v:7:y:2023:i:2:p:1278-1286
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