How did Alfred Corbin spend his childhood days?
Nov 18, 2023
By: jansilamalang
0 Answers
Sketch the character of Pipa as a homeless and restless person.
Nov 01, 2023
By: puspasharmaa2003
Sketch the charcter of pipa as a homeless and restless person
Oct 13, 2023
By: ninitabininitabi
theme of the book of secrets by m,g vassanji.
Sep 10, 2023
By: bomkeriva
How appropriate is the title of the book of secrets?
Aug 06, 2023
By: basu38869
Sketch the character of pipa as a homeless and restless person
Dec 15, 2022
By: abheer54321
Discuss the major thematic concerns of Vassanji?s The Book of Secrets.
Dec 02, 2022
By: abhisekkumarsingh7
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In his novel, The Book of Secrets M.G. Vassanji takes a curious approach at the topic of how history is presented, how it could and should be reconstructed and how it influences characters’ identities and perceptions. This includes a diary, letters, personal experiences and thoughts. The perception of history and the narrative are going to be one focus of this paper.
Dec 07, 2022
By: BandhiniUppal
Narrative structure of the book of secrets
Nov 12, 2022
By: ritikagogoi006
2 Answers
The diary entries, written between 1913 and 1914, are an account written by Alfred Corbin, Assistant District Commissioner, a low ranking colonial official sent to the small town of Kikono. While there, Corbin becomes intrigued by a young woman named Mariamu whom he saves from an exorcism.
Stream of consciousness is the narrative technique used in this novel. Quest of identity is one of the main themes. The first person narrated the whole story. Superstitious beliefs prevail in the shamsi community people is described.
By: AhujaTara
Write a note on the relationship of Mariamu and Corbin
By: dasranjan9401
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Pipa believes the book contains Mariamu’s spirit and the secrets and the truth about his son and Mariamu’s relationship to Corbin. Since he cannot read and does not know any English, the book remains a secret to him.
Corbin becomes intrigued by a young woman named Mariamu whom he saves from an exorcism. Before she is married, Mariamu also briefly nurses Corbin when he is stricken with blackwater fever. After her marriage, Mariamu’’s husband, believing that Mariamu is not a virgin, accuses Corbin of sleeping with her.
Marimamu is the wife of pipa
Nov 23, 2022
By: anitayadav863821
Why is pipa arrested by the english
Nov 05, 2022
By: prostutiroy168
3 Answers
Meanwhile ,World War ,a messenger from his formet Muslim contribution in Mausi comes to him and manipulates him so that he has to work to help the British enemies by distributing letters and messages in his store.First by Corbin on behalf of the English and later by the German. After being arrested by English as a messenger for the Germans, but after a short time Pipa is being released. Arriving at Pipa return home , he discovers that his wife Mariamu has been raped and murdered.
Jul 16, 2023
By: tithisarkar937
fter his wife was being buried, Pipa goes through Mariamu’’s things and discovers Corbin’’s diary. Pipa believes the book contains Mariamu’’s spirit and the secrets and the truth about his son and Mariamu’’s relationship to Corbin. Since he cannot read and does not know any English, the book remains a secret to him.
World War I has reached the small town of Kikono and Pipa is enlisted as a messenger, first by Corbin on behalf of the English and later by the Germans. After being arrested by the English as a messenger for the Germans Pipa returns home only to find that Mariamu has been raped and murdered.
Write a note on M.G vassanji as a novelist with reference to the book of secret
Feb 09, 2022
By: iamtrinayan
It’s a fine piece of work that foregrounds the themes and ideas that recur throughout M. G. Vassanji’s fiction. It is an engrossing account of Asians in East Africa. Rich in detail and description, this award winning fiction magnificently deals with immigrants and exiles. It appears as a story of displacement, physical and emotional, and one’s search for identity and a promised land.
Dec 09, 2022
By: AadritaArora
In his novel, The Book of Secrets M.G. Vassanji takes a curious approach at the topic of how history is presented, how it could and should be reconstructed and how it influences characters’ identities and perceptions. Finding out the truth in history is not always easy.
Name the mzungu in the Book of secrets?
Nov 12, 2021
By: kushaluttam08
Nigel gains the title of "The Mzungu Boy", meaning "white boy", by the older boys of the village. Nigel immediately falls in love with hunting on the prairies of Africa. He especially enjoys hunting Old Moses, which, according to Kariuki, is the oldest, toughest warthog in the world.
Alfred Corbin
Nov 14, 2021
By: nishukumari85442
What is the theme for this novel
Nov 07, 2021
By: solovibin
It appears as a story of displacement, physical and emotional, and one’’s search for identity and a promised land. It explores the state of living in exile from one’’s home and from oneself.
Who theft the diary of corbin?
Oct 30, 2021
By: shounakpainginkar
7 Answers
Pipa certainly believes that Mariamu stole the diary from Corbin, but he also improbably concludes that it is her “gift” (172) to him to show that “she had chosen him over that other.
Farnandus
Apr 02, 2022
By: upasanadas853
Rita
Pius Fernandes
Dec 16, 2021
By: surinderkhajuria1
Mariamu
Nov 06, 2021
worshiped it in secret as a holy relic of his murdered wife, Mariamu, who was the thief.
By: DevikaRani