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Issue 47  
Spring 2006  
Amardeep Singh The Lifting and the Lifted: Prefaces to Colonial Modernist Texts 1
Diana Bridge the gopuram and other poems 10
Erica Johnson Debeljak Fiction: She’s a Little Bit Unsure About the Formation of Clouds 11
Stefano Mercanti Over the Barricades of Indian Nationalism in Raja Rao’s Short Stories 16
John Haynes Poem: From YOU for Afiniki Kyari 22
Shirley Chew Interviews Nayantara Sahgal 24
Sampurna Chattarji Fiction: The Saint Who Resurrected a Goat 30
Sara Upstone The Fulcrum of Instability: Salman Rushdie’s The Ground Beneath Her Feet and the Postcolonial Traveller 34
Anthony Downey Art: Critical Imperatives: Notes on Contemporary Art Criticism and African Cultural Production 39
Lou Smith Poems: Voyage Through the Grey and Exile 49
Aminatta Forna Interviews Helen Oyeyemi and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 50
Victor Ehikhamenor Fiction: Who Will Bury the Dead? 58
Christine Matzke ‘A good Woman in a good country’ or the Essence is in the Pumpkin: Alexander McCall Smith’s Mma Ramotswe Novels as a Case of Postcolonial Nostalgia 64
Reviews    
Anthony Ilona A Distant Shore by Caryl Phillips 72
  Dancing in the Dark by Caryl Phillips  
Suman Gupta The Ethics of Identity by Kwame Anthony Appiah 75
Hena Maes-Jelinek Revisiting Slave Narratives by Judith Misrahi-Barak 78
Ursula Kluwick The Great Art of Making Real: Salman Rushdie’s The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Elsa Linguanti and Viktoria Tchernichova, eds 79
  Magic(al) Realism by Maggie Bowers  
Florian Stadtler Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie 80
Tabish Khair A Red Death by Walter Mosley 82
  The Man in My Basement by Walter Mosley  
Michael Niblett It All Falls Into Place by Phyllis Shand Allfrey 84
  Julie Mango by N D Williams  
Shirley Hughes Minaret by Leila Aboulela 85
Devon Campbell-Hall Looking In, Looking Out by Shanta Acharya 87
  Wish-granting Words by Smita Agarwal  
  Tartan & Turban by Bashabi Fraser  
Sarah Campbell India Calling by Cornelia Sorabji 89
  Dwelling in the Archive: Women Writing House, Home and History in Late Colonial India by Antoinette Burton  
Books Received   92
Among the Contributors   94
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