Wasafiri 119: 40th Anniversary Issue – Futurisms
Introducing our 40th Anniversary Issue — Wasafiri 119: Futurisms
This issue brings to the fore writers whose perspectives – on the present and on the future – have historically been sidelined. From alternative histories to critiques of the late-capitalist present; high fantasy, sci-fi and the posthuman; theories of landscape, the city, and the body; this milestone issue will showcase a branching network of writing on and around the power of persistence as resistance, as we continue to imagine into being futures that defy an increasingly oppressive present.
Editorial Past / Now / Next / Dream
Lead Feature Against the Death of Dream
Articles Redefining Our Climate Future: New Approaches to Writing Climate Fiction; Un-imagining the University; The Speculative Anthology as a Formal Experiment in Futurity; African Literary Future/isms: Collective and Speculative Approaches
Interviews Alexis Wright; Suhaiymah Manzoor Khan, Yara Rodrigues Fowler, & Momtaza Mehri; Corey Brotherson, Chella Ramanan, & Rivers Solomon; Anthony V Capildeo & Yousif M Qasmiyeh; Anton Hur & Kaliane Bradley
Art Rebellion, Resistance, and Resilience: Three Black British Artists and Eco-Feminism
Fiction Fine Gråbøl, trans. Martin Aitken; Kim Hyun, trans. Archana Madhavan; Len Lukowski; Preti Taneja
Poetry Raymond Antrobus; Dzifa Benson; Natalie Linh Bolderston; Malika Booker; Gospel Chinedu; Shaun Hill; Gboyega Odubanjo; Norman Erikson Pasaribu; Yomi Ṣode
Life Writing Basma Ghalayini; Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor; Hannah Silva
Review Essay Healing, (Re)turning, and Dreaming Towards Better Worlds
Reviews [...], Fady Joudah; Your Utopia: Stories, Bora Chung, trans. Anton Hur; Writing the Future, ed. Dan Coxon and Richard V Hirst.
... and much more.
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Contents
Editorial
Past / Now / Next / Dream
Sana Goyal
Lead Feature
Against the Death of Dream
Annie Zaidi
Articles
African Literary Future/isms: Collective and Speculative Approaches
Sreya Mallika Datta and Joanna Woods
The Speculative Anthology as a Formal Experiment in Futurity
Annie Webster
Redefining our Climate Future: New Approaches to Writing Climate Fiction
Jimin Kang
Un-imagining the University
Madhu Krishnan
Life Writing
Not Dystopia
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
Alternative Intelligence
Hannah Silva
An End to the Simulation
Basma Ghalayini
Interviews
Imagining the Impossible: Yara Rodrigues Fowler, Suhaiymah Manzoor Khan, and Momtaza Mehri on Feminist Futures
Em Mercer
Genre Marauders: A Conversation with Corey Brotherson, Chella Ramanan, and Rivers Solomon
Leah Muwanga-Magoye
Changing the Future: In Conversation with Kaliane Bradley and Anton Hur
So Mayer
A Future of Our Own Making: In Conversation with Anthony V Capildeo and Yousif M Qasmiyeh
Maya Caspari
Writing in the All Times: An Interview with Alexis Wright
Jessica Gaitán Johannesson
Art
Rebellion, Resistance, and Resilience: Three Black British Artists and Eco-Feminism
Alice Correia
Fiction
This is Not a Game
Preti Taneja
The App
Len Lukowski
Sooyoung Swimming
Kim Hyun. Translated by Archana Madhavan
Sweet Corridor Law
Fine Gråbøl. Translated by Martin Aitken
Poetry
Remembering Gboyega Odubanjo and Benjamin Zephaniah
Raymond Antrobus, Dzifa Benson, Malika Booker, and Yomi Ṣode
Function
Gboyega Odubanjo
Rhapsody of Icarus Where Daedalus is an Orchardman
Gospel Chinedu
Notes on the Machine
Norman Erikson Pasaribu
where music takes us
Shaun Hill
Palimpsest; [archaic]: to practise divination; Notes on Fortune
Natalie Linh Bolderston
Review Essay
Healing, (Re)turning, and Dreaming Towards Better Worlds
from unincorporated terrority [åmot] – Craig Santos Perez
The Moon That Turns You Back – Hala Alyan
Anishinaabe Songs for a New Millennium – Marcie R Rendon
Prerana Kumar
Reviews
Writing the Future: Essays on Crafting Science Fiction – Dan Coxon and Richard V Hurst, eds
Sharmin Islam
The Saint of Bright Doors – Vajra Chandrasekera
Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon – Wole Talabi
Kris Van der Bijl
Imagining Palestine: Cultures of Exile and National Identity – Tahrir Hamdi
David Johnson
amuk – Khairani Barokka
Horse – Rushika Wick
Oluwaseun Olayiwola
Home is Not A Place – Johny Pitts and Roger Robinson
Ariana Nkwanyuo
Your Utopia – Bora Chung. Translated by Anton Hur
Nayantara Srinivasan
[...] – Fady Joudah
Alycia Pirmohamed
