TY - JOUR AU - Urie, Andrew PY - 2023/01/15 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Selves Fall Apart: Existential Meditations in Cheikh Hamidou Kane’s Ambiguous Adventure and M.G. Vassanji’s No New Land JF - Journal of Integrated Studies JA - JIS VL - 14 IS - 1 SE - Article DO - UR - https://jis.athabascau.ca/index.php/jis/article/view/355 SP - AB - <p>This article engages in a comparative examination of Cheikh Hamidou Kane’s novel <em>Ambiguous Adventure&nbsp;</em>(1961) and M.G. Vassanji’s novel <em>No New Land&nbsp;</em>(1991), which each richly delineate the journey of a conflicted protagonist whose conception of selfhood is decimated as a result of his dispersal from Africa to the West. As I demonstrate, the two texts ultimately reveal themselves to be acute existential meditations that suggest that “selves” can in fact fall apart due to the inherent trauma of diasporic dispersal.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Keywords:&nbsp;</strong>Africa; Cheikh Hamidou Kane; M.G. Vassanji; Ambiguous Adventure; No New Land; Existentialism</p> ER -