International Research Journal of Education and Technology

The present paper focuses on the "Treatment of Diasporic Elements in M.G. Vassanji's writings M.G Vassanji is among those front ranking South Asian immigrant writers from Canada who see themselves as unfixed selves or who comprehend their identity in terms of their being twice displaced as first, he migrated from Gujarat to Africa and then to settle as a diasporic in Canada. Vassanji in his novels represent the problems that the Asian diasporas face in Western countries. They can •neither give up their old cultures and traditions nor they can adapt themselves new. So they feel themselves in-between and they long visit their homeland again. He also focuses on the interaction between the Indian community and the native Africans and the generational differences among first, second and third generations of Diaspora, gender related conflicts/crisis, the transformation of subjectivities, and the emergence of new patterns of life with cross-culture interaction etc.

Keywords: Diaspora, Identity, Vassanji, Racial Discrimination, Ethnicity, Colonialism.