
Wasafiri Issue 107
Wasafiri Issue 107
Editorial In the Wake of the Wake of the Wake
Interviews Paul Mendez, Niven Govinden, Ivan Vladislavić, Arundhati Roy
Articles J M Coetzee and African Studies; Yvonne Vera and the Craft of Writing; Of Women's Bonds: Female Friendships and Feminist Ethics of Care in Tabish Khair's Just Another Jihadi Jane
Art Painting the Sea and Sky; Pandemic Vicissitudes and Contemporary Art in Singapore
Fiction Michelle Hamadache, Karina Lickorish Quinn
Poetry Hala Alyan, Cecilia Knapp, Shakespeare Okuni, Celia A Sorhaindo
Life Writing Jessica Gaitán Johannesson, S J Kim
Review Essay Writing Watersheds: Climate, Prejudice, and Paranoia
Reviews Women Dreaming, Salma; The Orchid Folios, Mok Zining; Igifu, Scholastique Mukasonga; Lives Lost: In Search of a New Tomorrow, Saeed Yousef; Postcolonial Disaster, Pallavi Rastogi; Travelling while Black, Nanjala Nyabola; Antiemetic for Homesickness, Romalyn Ante
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VIEW FULL CONTENTSEDITORIAL
1 IN THE WAKE OF THE WAKE OF THE WAKE
Malachi McIntosh
ARTICLES
J M COETZEE AND AFRICAN STUDIES
David Attwell
32 MAXIMUM SPACE AROUND THE TYPEWRITER: YVONNE VERA AND THE CRAFT OF WRITING
Jessica Hemmings
51 OF WOMEN’S BONDS: FEMALE FRIENDSHIP AND FEMINIST ETHICS OF CARE IN TABISH KHAIR’S JUST ANOTHER JIHADI JANE
Indrani Karmakar
LIFE WRITING
4 ‘WHAT HAVE I DONE?’ AND OTHER ILLUSIONS OF CONTROL
Jessica Gaitán Johannesson
81 정
S J Kim
INTERVIEWS
14 DOING THE WORK, WITH PAUL MENDEZ AND NIVEN GOVINDEN
Octavia Bright
26 ACTS OF FAITH AND FRIGHTENING FICTIONS: AN INTERVIEW WITH IVAN VLADISLAVIĆ
Sisonke Msimang
41 THE SYNTAX OF EVERYDAY INJUSTICE: A CONVERSATION WITH ARUNDHATI ROY
Pavan Kumar Malreddy
ART
10 READING THE PAST AND THE PRESENT, PAINTING THE SEA AND THE SKY
Kabe Wilson
59 WHAT THE CENTRE CANNOT HOLD: PANDEMIC VICISSITUDES AND CONTEMPORARY ART IN SINGAPORE
Adele Tan
FICTION
70 ZOHIRA
Michelle Hamadache
76 BREAKFAST AT THE WINDSOR MIRAMAR
Karina Lickorish Quinn
POETRY
3 MY BROTHER QUIT DRINKING MAYBE FIVE TIMES
Cecilia Knapp
50 TWO POEMS: ‘I WILL BEGIN’ and ‘SPICES, INK, AND PAPER’
Shakespeare Okuni
69 KNOCK ON WOOD
Celia A Sorhaindo
75 RELAPSE DREAM ENDING WITH MY GRANDMOTHER’S HANDS
Hala Alyan
REVIEWS
90 REVIEW ESSAY: ‘WRITING WATERSHEDS’: CLIMATE, PREJUDICE, AND PARANOIA
Gigantic Cinema: A Weather Anthology – Alice Oswald and Paul Keegan, eds.
Red Pill – Hari Kunzru
Should We Fall Behind – Sharon Duggal
Dzifa Benson
93 Hashim and Family – Shahnaz Ahsan
Suparna Banerjee
95 Women Dreaming – Salma, trans. by Meena Kandasamy
Priyanka Hutschenreiter
96 The Orchid Folios – Mok Zining
Yue Wang
97 Igifu – Scholastique Mukasonga, trans. by Jordan Stump
Anna Giulia Novero
99 Tazmamart – Aziz BineBine, trans. by Lulu Norman
Lives Lost: In Search of a New tomorrow – Saeed Yousef, foreword by Shahrzad Mojab, trans. by Ahad Bahadori, illustrated by Ava Raha
David Rudd-Mitchell
101 Postcolonial Disaster: Narrating Catastrophe in the Twenty-First Century – Pallavi Rastogi
Treasa De Loughry
102 Travelling While Black: Essays Inspired by a Life on the Move – Nanjala Nyabola
Ranka Primorac
103 Antiemetic for Homesickness – Romalyn Ante
Jennifer Wong
105 The Giant Dark – Sarvat Hasin
Sana Goyal