
Wasafiri 54
Issue 54: Summer 2008
Interviews with Mohsin Hamid and Ben Okri
Poems by Chris Beckett, Siobhán Campbell and Jeet Thayil
Fiction by Ginny Baily and Mukoma wa Ngugi
Art Essay: Kininjku Bark Painting and Sculpture
Articles on Yvonne Vera, models of renewal in Ben Okri's Starbook, and on Lusopone literatures
Reviews of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Infidel, Joan Anim-Addo's Janie Cricketing Lady with Carnival and Hurricane Poems, Kaiser Haq's Published in the Streets of Dhaka: Collected Poems 1966-2006, Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze's The Fifth Figure and Alternatives Within the Mainstream: British Black and Asian Theatres edited by Dimple Goodiwala
Contents
Charles Larson
Yvonne Vera: Sorting it Out
Khaled Mattawa
Poems
Sabyn Javeri-Jillani
Fiction: The Bride
Nana Yaa Mensah
Interview with Ben Okri
Maurice O’Connor
A Journey Towards Stillness: Modes of Renewal in Ben Okri’s Starbook
Jeet Thayil
Poems
Ginny Baily
Fiction: Junction
Luke Taylor
Art Essay: Inspired by Country: Kininjku Bark Painting and Sculpture
Amina Yaqin
Interview with Mohsin Hamid
Bruce Woodcock
Small Island, Crossing Cultures
Chris Beckett
Poems
Mukoma Wa Ngugi
Fiction: How Kamau wa Mwangi Escaped Into Exile
Siobhán Campbell
Poems
Joana Passos
Lusophone Literatures: Tales from Cape Verde and Mozambican Memories of the Apocalpyse
Reviews
Justin D Edwards
Michelle Keown Postcolonial Pacific Writing: Representations of the Body
Carole Boyce Davies et al, ed Decolonizing the Academy: African Diaspora Studies
Sara Wajid
Ayaan Hirsi Ali Infidel
Liselotte Glage
Elaine Yee Lin Ho Anita Desai
Amrita Bhalla Shashi Despande
Ian Foakes
Kaiser Haq Published In the Streets Of Dhaka: Collected Poems 1966 -2006
Shanta Acharya
Keki N Daruwalla Collected Poems: 1970-2005
K McIntyre-Bhatty
Joan Anim-Addo Janie Cricketing Lady with Carnival and Hurricane Poems
Opal Palmer Adisa
Marcia Douglas Notes from a Writer’s Book of Cures and Spells
Kanika Batra
Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze The Fifth Figure
Dimple Godiwala, ed Alternatives Within the Mainstream: British Black and Asian Theatres
Frederick Luis Aldama
Simone Lazaroo The Travel Writer
Manjit Kaur Handa
Chandra Prasad, ed Mixed: An Anthology of Short Fiction on Multiracial Experience
Yvonne Vera: Sorting it Out
Khaled Mattawa
Poems
Sabyn Javeri-Jillani
Fiction: The Bride
Nana Yaa Mensah
Interview with Ben Okri
Maurice O’Connor
A Journey Towards Stillness: Modes of Renewal in Ben Okri’s Starbook
Jeet Thayil
Poems
Ginny Baily
Fiction: Junction
Luke Taylor
Art Essay: Inspired by Country: Kininjku Bark Painting and Sculpture
Amina Yaqin
Interview with Mohsin Hamid
Bruce Woodcock
Small Island, Crossing Cultures
Chris Beckett
Poems
Mukoma Wa Ngugi
Fiction: How Kamau wa Mwangi Escaped Into Exile
Siobhán Campbell
Poems
Joana Passos
Lusophone Literatures: Tales from Cape Verde and Mozambican Memories of the Apocalpyse
Reviews
Justin D Edwards
Michelle Keown Postcolonial Pacific Writing: Representations of the Body
Carole Boyce Davies et al, ed Decolonizing the Academy: African Diaspora Studies
Sara Wajid
Ayaan Hirsi Ali Infidel
Liselotte Glage
Elaine Yee Lin Ho Anita Desai
Amrita Bhalla Shashi Despande
Ian Foakes
Kaiser Haq Published In the Streets Of Dhaka: Collected Poems 1966 -2006
Shanta Acharya
Keki N Daruwalla Collected Poems: 1970-2005
K McIntyre-Bhatty
Joan Anim-Addo Janie Cricketing Lady with Carnival and Hurricane Poems
Opal Palmer Adisa
Marcia Douglas Notes from a Writer’s Book of Cures and Spells
Kanika Batra
Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze The Fifth Figure
Dimple Godiwala, ed Alternatives Within the Mainstream: British Black and Asian Theatres
Frederick Luis Aldama
Simone Lazaroo The Travel Writer
Manjit Kaur Handa
Chandra Prasad, ed Mixed: An Anthology of Short Fiction on Multiracial Experience
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