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‘As a ‘nice’ Asian woman you don’t write about the body’: Bernice Chauly
Wasafiri‘s Associate Editor Alex Tickell talks to Bernice Chauly about contemporary Malaysian writing, cosmopolitanism and taboo topics.
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‘As a ‘nice’ Asian woman you don’t write about the body’: Bernice Chauly
Wasafiri‘s Associate Editor Alex Tickell talks to Bernice Chauly about contemporary Malaysian writing, cosmopolitanism and taboo topics.
On Guest-Editing Japan: Literatures of Remembering
In conversation with Elizabeth Chappell, Hiromitsu Koiso and Yasuhiko Ogawa on curating and commissioning our special issue on Japan.
‘I had no room to get a running start, so I had to fly’: Mieko Kawakami
An extract from an interview – first published in Wasafiri 102, ‘Japan: Literatures of Remembering’.
LATEST ISSUE
Issue 102, Summer 2020 Special Issue: Japan: Literatures of Remembering
Editorial The Making and Re-making of Memory
Interview Mieko Kawakami
Articles Hayao Miyazaki’s European Animation; Poems of the Perilous Season: Akiko’s Princess Saho; Unruly Subjects in 'Walking a Street Named Peace' and Tokyo Ueno Station; Hibakusha Memories: Between the Generations
Art Manga as Memory: Cocoon, In this Corner of the World and Popular History, The Politics of Ownership: Notes on Miyako Ishiuchi’s Photographs
Fiction Hideo Furukawa, Minako Ōba
Poetry Mimi Hachikai, Tamiki Hara, Hiromi Itō, Naha Kanie, Mieko Kawakami, Martha Nakamura, Sayaka Ōsaki, Ryōichi Wagō
Life-writing Kumiko Kakehashi, Susan Southard
Review Essay The Transformation of Identity in Contemporary Japanese Fiction
Reviews Osamu Dazai, A Shameful Life; Hiromi Kawakami, The Ten Loves of Mr Nishino; Aoko Matsuda, Where the Wild Ladies Are; Yoko Tawada, The Last Children of Tokyo
and more...
LATEST NEWS
Welcoming Vicky Unwin as the new Chair to Wasafiri’s Board of Trustees
A key member of the original organisation that lead to the magazine’s founding in 1984, Unwin returns to Wasafiri 35 years later.
Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize partners with The Good Literary Agency
We’re delighted to announce an additional prize that will be awarded to this year’s shortlist.
BookBound 2020: A Virtual Literary Festival
Find out more and see the full programme of events.
