Books Received

This a list of books received at our office; a selection of these titles will be reviewed in one of the future issues of Wasafiri. If you are interested in reviewing one or two of these titles (in 900 - 1200 words), contact the reviews editor. Please mention which title/s you would like to review; also include a recent sample of your writing (preferably a book review), as well as a short CV, your affiliation and contact details.

We would like to consider reviews of the following combinations:

	Ecological Imaginations in Latin American Fiction Laura Barbas-Rhoden University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 2011, hb with		Postcolonial Ecologies: Literatures of the Environment Elizabeth DeLoughrey and George B Handley, ed Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2011, hb
	Feminist Visions and Queer Futures in Postcolonial Drama: Community, Kinship and Citizenship Kanika Batra Routledge, Abingdon, 2011, hb with		Engendering Performance: Indian Women Performers in Search of an Identity Bishnupriya Dutt and Urmimala Sarkar Munsi Sage, London, 2010, hb
	Carnival and National Identity in the Poetry of Afrocubanismo Thomas F Anderson Florida University Press, Gainesville, 2011, hb with		Afro-Cuban Costumbrismo: From Plantations to the Slums Rafael Ocasio Florida University Press, Gainesville, 2012, hb
	Passages: A Novel Dewrik Zgambo Brown Turtle Press, 2008, pb with		Messages Left Behind Lupenga Mphande Brown Turtle Press, 2011
	The following books are also available for review:
	All Just David Herd Carcanet, Manchester, 2012, pb ISBN 1 8477 7163 6		The Pink House at Appleton Jonathan Braham Troubador, Leicester, 2011, hb ISBN 1 8487 6745 4
	A Heron in Buenos Aires Luis Benitez Ravenna Press, Spokane, 2011, pb		Sterile Sky E E Sule African Writers Series, Harlow, 2012, pb
	Light Falling on Bamboo Lawrence Scott Tindall Street Press, Birmingham, 2012, hb		And Crocodiles are Hungry at Night Jack Mapanje Ayebia, Banbury, 2011, pb
	Straw Dogs Bolaji Olatunde Author House, Milton Keynes, 2011, pb		Black and Whites and other new short stories from Malaysia Emma Dawson and Macdonald Daly, ed Critical, Cultural and Communications Press, Nottingham, 2012, pb
	Jade Ladder: Contemporary Chinese Poetry Yiang Lian and W N Herbert, ed Bloodaxe, Tarset, 2012, pb		Mumbai Noir Altaf Tyrewala Akashic Books, New York, 2012, pb
	Locating Life Stories: Beyond East-West Binaries in (Auto)Biographical Studies Maureen Perkins, ed Hawaii University Press, Honolulu, 2012, hb		Return of the Spirit: A Novel Tawfiq al-Hakim, translated by William Maynard Hutchins Lynne Rienner Publishers, Boulder, 2012, pb
	The Grub Hunter Amir Tag Elsir Heinemann African Writers, Harlow, 2012, pb		Genie and Paul Natasha Soobramanien Myriad Editions, Brighton, 2012, pb
	Beyond the Postcolonial: World Englishes Literature E Dawson-Varughese Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2012, hb		Re-Imagining the 'Dark Continent' in fin de siecle LIterature Robbie McLaughlin Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2012, hb
	A Street in Srinagar Chandrakanta Zubaan, New Delhi, 2009, pb		The Sultan of Byzantium Selcuk Altun Telegram Book, London, 2012, pb
	Postcolonial Fictions and Disability: Exceptional Children, Metaphor and Materiality Clare Barker Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2012, hb

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Books Received