| Spring 1993 |
Focus on Writing in Britain |
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| Seema Jena |
From Victims to Survivors: The Anti-Hero as a Narrative Strategy in Asian Immigrant Writing |
3 |
| Ian Iqbal Rashid |
A Pass to Indiaand other poems |
7 |
| Tariq Latif |
Poem: Here to Stay |
9 |
| Jane Bryce and Kari Darko |
Textual Deviancy and Cultural Syncretism: Romantic Fiction as a Subversive Strain in Black Women’s Writing |
10 |
| Tanure Ojaide |
Poem: Lemon Memory |
15 |
| Zhana |
Poems: Mother East and From the Warrior |
15 |
| Aamer Hussein |
Interviews Joan Riley |
17 |
| Horlene Mowatt |
Poem: Who am I? |
20 |
| Shanta Acharya |
Poem: Absence |
20 |
| Debjani Chatterjee |
Poem: Visiting E M Forster |
21 |
| Satyendra Srivastava |
Poems: Hindi-Urdu and The Ticket |
21 |
| Lakshmi Holmström |
Interviews Shashi Deshpande |
22 |
| Jan Shinebourne |
Short story: Oh Buddha |
28 |
| Tanure Ojaide |
Poem: Reclamation |
29 |
| Minoli Salgado |
Fiction: Getting to No |
30 |
| Robert Bush |
The National Curriculum and Multicultural Literature |
33 |
| June Henfrey |
Fiction: The Canecutter |
39 |
| Nadeem Aslam |
Extract from Season of the Rainbirds |
42 |
| Laura Peters |
‘The Things You Do Not Know About Me’: The Schizophrenia of the Colonial Experience (A Report on the Tenth Commonwealth Women Writers’ Conference) |
45 |
| Film |
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| Ravinder Kaur |
South Asian Films at the London Film Festival |
47 |
| Megan Stern |
Making the Old Myth New: The Frontier in The Last of the Mohicans and Dances with Wolves |
49 |
| Phil Okwedy |
Guelwaar by Ousmane Sembène |
53 |
| Reviews |
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| Neloufer de Mel |
Monkfish Moon by Romesh Gunesekera |
54 |
| Rosemary Lucas |
Duppy Jamboree and other Jamaican Poems by Valerie Bloom |
55 |
| Gina Wisker |
Jazz by Toni Morrison |
56 |
| Bridget Jones |
Between Two Worlds by Simone Schwarz-Bart |
57 |
| Anthony Ilona |
A Gathering of Fear: Poems by Olu Oguibe |
58 |
| Thorunn Lonsdale |
Satellite City by Alecia McKenzie |
59 |
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Two Roads to Mount Joyful by Earl McKenzie |
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| Charles Sarvan |
Shadows by Chenjerai Hove |
60 |
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Smouldering Charcoal by Tiyambe Zeleza |
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| Marjory Caine |
The Faber Book of the Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry Douglas Dunn, ed |
62 |
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Hugh MacDiarmid: Selected Poetry Alan Riach and Michael Grieve, eds |
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| Nana Grey-Johnson |
Striving for the Wind by Meja Mwangi |
64 |
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Niiwan and Taaw by Ousmane Sembène |
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| Debjani Chatterjee |
Skimming the Soul by Tariq Latif |
66 |
| Hena Maes-Jelinek |
The Radical Imagination: Lectures and Talks by Wilson Harris Ed. Alan Riach and Mark Williams |
66 |
| Jogamaya Bayer |
Showing our Colours: Afro-German Women Speak Out May Opitz, Katharina Oguntoye and Dagmar Schultz, eds |
67 |
| Julie Minkler |
Crossing Water: Contemporary Poetry of the English-speaking Caribbean Anthony Kellman, ed |
68 |
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The Heinemann Book of Caribbean Poetry
Stewart Brown and Ian McDonald, eds |
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| Karen King-Aribisala |
Daughters of Africa Margaret Busby, ed |
69 |
| Helen Donlon |
Tides by Isidore Okpewho |
70 |
| Kristina Masuwa |
A Shield of Coolest Air by Marion Molteno |
70 |
| Lawrence Scott |
The Dispossessed by Clem Maharaj |
72 |
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The Humming-bird Tree by Ian McDonald |
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| Nigel Rigby |
Empire and the English Character by Kathryn Tidrick |
74 |
| David Turley |
The Black Cook’s Historian by Graeme Rigby |
74 |
| Books Received |
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76 |
| Among the Contributors |
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80 |
