
Wasafiri Issue 27
Issue 27: Spring 1998
African American Writing
Interview with Bell Hooks
Poetry by Jamika Ajalon, John Kinsella, Melvin E Lewis and Tracy Ryan
Fiction by Ray Deonandan and David Woodward
Articles on Toni Morrison, African America literature and multiculturalism and Anna Deavere Smith’s Performance Art
Obituaries for Ellsworth McGranahan ‘Shake’ Keane, Martin Carter and Attia Hosain
Reviews of Hanif Kureishi's Love in a Blue Time, Simon Gikandi's Maps of Englishness: Writing Identity in the Culture of Colonialism, Rita Dove's Mother Love and Pauline Melville's The Ventriloquist’s Tale
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Editorial: African American Literature and a Multicultural Pedagogy
Sarah Meer
The Passing of Charles Chesnutt: Mining the White Tradition
Suzanne Moore
Interviews Bell Hooks
Tracy Ryan
Poems: The Splinter and Trompe l’oeil
Jamika Ajalon
Poem: i don’t need …
Zyskandar A Jaimot
Poems: The ‘Doudous’ of Fort-de France, Martinique and I soon be leavin’
Maggie Ann Bowers
Acknowledging Ambivalence: The Creation of Communal Memory in the Writing of Toni Morrison
Ray Deonandan
Fiction: Motherland
Melvin E Lewis
Poem: Harare
Arnab Guha
Poem: Voyage
Julian Murphet
Identity and Difference in Anna Deavere Smith’s Performance Art
John Kinsella
Poem: The A-Type Wheat Bin
David Woodward
Fiction: Bobby
Philip Nanton
In Memoriam: Ellsworth McGranahan ‘Shake’ Keane, 1927-1997
Sasenarine Persaud
In Memoriam: Martin Carter, 1927-1997
Suman Bhuchar
In Memoriam: Attia Hosain, 1913-1998
Reviews
Klaus de Albuquerque
Stephen Hopkins, dir The Ghost and the Darkness
Julian Murphet
Henry Louis Gates Jr and Nellie Y McKay, ed The Norton Anthology of African American Literature
Joan Anim-Addo
Patricia Cumper One Bright Child
Jamal Mahjoub
Hanif Kureishi Love in a Blue Time
Patrick Williams
Imruh Bakari and Mbye Cham, ed African Experiences of Cinema
Pinkie Mekgwe-Magocha
Rita Dove Mother Love
Bruce King
E A Markham, ed The Penguin Book of Caribbean Short Stories
Stewart Brown, ed The Pressures of the Text: Orality, Texts and the Telling of Tales
Paul Sharrad
Manoa 8, 2 (1996) ‘Seeing the Invisible: New Writing from America, the Pacific and Asia’
Rustum Kozain
Ian Gordon, ed Looking for a Rain God and Other Short Stories from Africa
Sarah Meer
William Loren Katz, ed Flight From the Devil: Six Slave Narratives
Anita Rupprecht
Gretchen Gerzina Black England: Life Before Emancipation
Reyahn King et al, ed Ignatius Sancho: An African Man of Letters
Christina Abuk
Toni Cade Bambara (Toni Morrison, ed) Deep Sightings and Rescue Missions
Ronald Warwick
Krishna Dutta and Andrew Robinson, ed Selected Letters of Rabindranath Tagore
Geoffrey Haresnape
Steve Jacobs The Enemy Within
Denise deCaires Narain
Pauline Melville The Ventriloquist’s Tale
John McLeod
Simon Gikandi Maps of Englishness: Writing Identity in the Culture of Colonialism
Sarah Nuttall
Bart Moore-Gilbert Postcolonial Theory: Contexts, Practices, Politics
Stuart Murray, ed Not on Any Map: Essays on Postcoloniality and Cultural Nationalism