| Spring 1999 |
Taking the Cake: Black Writing in Britain |
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| Susheila Nasta |
Editorial: Taking the Cake |
3 |
| Helen Thomas |
Black on White: Textual Spaces in Black Britain |
5 |
| Sandra Courtman |
What is Missing from the Picture? Reading Desire in the Dyche Studio Photographs of the Windrush Generation |
9 |
| Mark de Brito |
Heron’s Canoe, extracts from a poem-in-progress |
15 |
| Kwame Dawes |
Negotiating the Ship on The Head: Black British Fiction |
18 |
| Elaine Savory |
Poem: Bristol seaport: 1731 |
25 |
| Shanta Acharya |
Poems: At the Edge of the World and Taking Stock |
26 |
| Mark Stein |
Interviews David Dabydeen |
27 |
| David Dabydeen |
Extract from A Harlot’s Progress |
30 |
| Giles Goodland |
Gurney and other poems |
32 |
| Leila Aboulela |
Prose poem: The Houriyah |
33 |
| Caryl Phillips |
Following On: The Legacy of Lamming and Selvon |
34 |
| Reinventing Britain: A Forum |
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| Stuart Hall |
Opening Remarks |
37 |
| Homi K Bhabha |
The Manifesto |
38 |
| Susheila Nasta and Rasheed Araeen |
Discussion: Radio 3 ‘Night Waves’ |
39 |
| Stuart Hall |
Closing Remarks |
43 |
| Janet Kofi-Tsekpo |
Poems: Freedom and Return |
44 |
| Rasheed Araeen |
Responses |
46 |
| Gabriel Gbadamosi |
Poem: Back Bedrooms |
47 |
| Sonia Boyce |
Challenging Modern Art History |
47 |
| Dorothea Smartt |
Low tide at tendaba and other poems |
48 |
| Bernardine Evaristo |
A response to Homi Bhabha’s Manifesto |
49 |
| Bernardine Evaristo |
Poems: Just An Old Bag of Bones and Post-Ice London |
50 |
| Reeta Chakrabarti |
On race relations after Stephen Lawrence |
51 |
| Chris Hardy |
Poems: Hunting the Basking Shark and Long Gone |
52 |
| Richard Dyer and Maya Jaggi |
Interview Jackie Kay |
53 |
| Romesh Gunesekera |
Fiction: The Emporium of the Durians |
62 |
| E A Markham |
Poem: On George Lamming’s Couch |
64 |
| Raimund Schäffner |
Assimilation, Separatism and Multiculturalism in Mustapha Matura’s Welcome Home Jacko and Caryl Phillips’ Strange Fruit |
65 |
| Vikas Mohan |
Fiction: Comedy Night at the Alcazar |
71 |
| Reviews |
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| E A Markham |
Windrush: The Irresistible Rise of Multi-Racial Britain , Trevor and Mike Phillips, eds |
75 |
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Empire Windrush: Fifty Years of Writing About Black Britain Onyekachi Wambu, ed |
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| Richard Dyer |
Chris Ofili: Exhibition |
79 |
| Ian Dieffenthaller |
The Fire People: A Collection of Contemporary Black British Poets Lemn Sissay, ed |
80 |
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Bigistong by Mark Angelo de Brito |
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| Patricia Powell |
Aelred’s Sin by Lawrence Scott |
82 |
| Stewart Brown |
Lara by Bernardine Evaristo |
83 |
| Paula Burnett |
The Sandglass by Romesh Gunesekera |
84 |
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When Memory Dies by A Sivanandan |
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| Robert Fraser |
Strategic Transformations in Nigerian Writing Ato Quayson, ed |
86 |
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Infinite Riches by Ben Okri |
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| Lawrence Scott |
Blessed is the Fruit by Robert Antoni |
87 |
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Double Play by Frank Martinus Arion |
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| Mark Stein |
Incomparable World by S I Martin |
89 |
| Silvia Albertazzi |
Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai |
90 |
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Difficult Daughters by Manju Kapur |
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| Denise deCaires Narain |
Haunted by History by Joan Anim-Addo |
92 |
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Bittersweet: Contemporary Black Women’s Poetry Karen McCarthy, ed |
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| David Huddart |
Postcolonial Literatures in English: History, Language, Theory by Dennis Walder |
93 |
| Ronald Warwick |
Albino Gecko by Debjani Chatterjee |
95 |
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Off Colour by Jackie Kay |
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| Jamal Mahjoub |
Sir Vidia’s Shadow: A Friendship Across Five Continents by Paul Theroux |
95 |
| Books Received |
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97 |
| Among the Contributors |
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101 |
