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l, he looks at the condition and involvement of the Asians of Kenya during the Mau Mau War of the 1950s. The past and unresolved issues cast strong shadows in his works. In his other works, for example No New Land, his characters have undergone a second migration, starting in the 1970s, to Europe,
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Vassanji writes about the effects of history and the interaction between personal and public histories, including folk and colonial history. Vassanji's narratives follow the personal histories of his main characters; the historical perspective provided often leaves mysteries unsolved. The
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Canada, or the United States. Vassanji then examines how the lives of these characters are affected by their migrations. Though few of his
African Asian characters ever return to India, the country's presence looms throughout his work. His 2007 novel
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Delbaere, "Re-Configuring the Postcolonial Paradigm: The Fiction of M. G. Vassanji," in Reconfigurations: Canadian Literatures and Postcolonial Identities, eds. Marc Maufort and Franca Bellarsi (Brussels: Peter Lang, 2002):
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tackles the topic of assimilation, in which characters can have their memories erased and replaced by new ones in order to be better integrated. But, the novel asks, is the process of erasure perfect?
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