Asma Sayed
Biographic Data
| ID | 800936 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Asma Sayed |
| GIVEN NAMES | Asma |
| FAMILY NAME | Sayed |
| SIGNATURE | SAYED A |
| AFFILIATIONS | MacEwan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Mythical Homes and Violent Realities
In this essay, I read M. G. Vassanji's travel-memoir A Place Within: Rediscovering India, as a diasporic traveler's personal journey and search for the self, and as a political critique of postcolonial India. I argue that as Vassanji, a diasporic traveler removed from his original homeland by many generations and geographies, searches for his roots seeking affirmation of his mythical memory, and as he tries to come to terms with the differences b…
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The Magic of Saida by M. G. Vassanji
Ma Yuan Ballad of the Himalayas: Stories of Tibet Herbert J. Batt, tr. MerwinAsia Traveling through Tibet, a narrator questions meaning and “story,” nodding to Tibetan Buddhism’s idea of cosmos as illusion. From a tongue-in-cheek allegory of China and Tibet to the playful account of a young Tibetan in the throes of love, Ma Yuan breaks with tradition and helps move Chinese literature into the twenty-first century. march–april 2013 • 147 Frances H…
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The Magic of Saida by M. G. Vassanji
Ma Yuan Ballad of the Himalayas: Stories of Tibet Herbert J. Batt, tr. MerwinAsia Traveling through Tibet, a narrator questions meaning and “story,” nodding to Tibetan Buddhism’s idea of cosmos as illusion. From a tongue-in-cheek allegory of China and Tibet to the playful account of a young Tibetan in the throes of love, Ma Yuan breaks with tradition and helps move Chinese literature into the twenty-first century. march–april 2013 • 147 Frances H…
Mythical Homes and Violent Realities
In this essay, I read M. G. Vassanji's travel-memoir A Place Within: Rediscovering India, as a diasporic traveler's personal journey and search for the self, and as a political critique of postcolonial India. I argue that as Vassanji, a diasporic traveler removed from his original homeland by many generations and geographies, searches for his roots seeking affirmation of his mythical memory, and as he tries to come to terms with the differences b…
Commerce with the universe
Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Diaspora (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Ancient history (1 work)