Wasafiri 121
Our spring issue explores the concept of the periphery from various perspectives. Edited by our former Deputy Editor, Durre Shahwar, this issue includes writing on the climate, body, justice, migration, translation, illustration, and much more. It also features the 2024 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize winners; a lead feature on Centring Justice by Professor Sunny Singh; interviews with Don Mee Choi and Claudette Johnson; and a review essay on Urdu literature in translation.
Editorial Peripheries of Boundlessness
Lead Feature Centring Justice
Articles Speaking through Bodies: Dalit Women’s Testimonies; Boundaries of Gender Categories: Trans Indian Autobiographies
Interviews Benyamin, Don Mee Choi, Sabba Khan and Deena Mohamed
Art An Unflinching Eye: Claudette Johnson in Conversation
Fiction Rohit Chakraborty, Chow Yik Lam, trans. Tim Tim Cheng, Peyman Esmaeili, trans. Sophie Lewis and Laetitia Nanquette, Thảo Tô, Elizabeth Wong
Poetry Devjani Bodepudi, Sneha Subramanian Kanta, Louise Law, trans. Jacqueline Leung, Nasim Luczaj, Sihle Ntuli, Anastasia Taylor-Lind
Life Writing Joey Garcia, Tomara Garrod, Elizabeth Winkler
Review Essay Divided by a Border, United by Translation: On Urdu Literature
Reviews Adam, Gboyega Odubanjo; The Shoulders We Stand On, Preti Dhillon; Shanghailanders, Juli Min; The Violence of Recognition: Adivasi Indigeneity and Anti-Dalitness in India, Pinky Hota; Absolution, Jeff VanderMeer
... and much more.
Order now.
Contents
Editorial
Peripheries of Boundlessness
Durre Shahwar
Lead Feature
Centring Justice
Sunny Singh
Articles
Speaking Through Bodies: Dalit Women's Lyrical Testimonies of Trauma and Possibilities of Encounter
Shruti Shukla
Boundaries of Gender Categories: Trans Indian Autobiographies
Tanupriya
Life Writing
A Public Space
Joey Garcia
Naked
Elizabeth Winkler
The Author and Her Graves
Tomara Garrod
Interviews
Another Mode of Writing: Don Mee Choi In Conversation
Sohini Basak
Illustrating Muslim Lives: An Interview with Sabba Khan and Deena Mohamed
Sana Goyal
A Migrant's Perspective on the Middle East: An Interview with Benyamin
Maya Vinai and S M Mithuna
Art
An Unflinching Eye: Claudette Johnson In Conversation
Phoebe Braithwaite
Fiction
Love in the Time of Migration
Thảo Tô
A Tunnel With No Cars
Yik-Lam Chow. Translated from the Chinese by Tim Tim Cheng
The Landless
Elizabeth Wong
Privacy
Peyman Esmaeili. Translated from the Persian by Laetitia Nanquette and Sophie Lewis
Miyah Ayah
Rohit Chakraborty
Poetry
the village
Nasim Luczaj
Sunflowers
Anastasia Taylor-Lind
Equal/Unequal
Devjani Bodepudi
Scapegoat; Ars Poetica as Bildungsroman; Reparations, or: the Isizulu Word for 'Soil', 'Land', 'Earth' & 'World' Are One & the Same
Sihle Ntuli
Love Song; Offering the Body Warmth
Sneha Subramanian Kanta
Or So It Seems; Seedless Lotus Pod; Conversation with a Banyan Tree
Louise Law. Translated from the Chinese by Jacqueline Leung
Review Essay
Divided by a Border, United in Translation: On Urdu Literature
Naulakhi Kothi - Ali Akbar Natiq. Translated by Naima Rashid
On the Other Side - Rahman Abbas. Translated by Riyaz Latif
Belles-Lettres: Writings of Hijab Imtiaz Ali - Hijab Imtiaz Ali. Translated by Sascha Aurora Akhtar
Hammad Rind
Reviews
Shanghailanders - Juli Min
Hari Berrow
An Abundance of Wild Roses - Feryal Ali-Gauhar
Julie Primon
Counting Cartographies: Reading Singapore Otherwise - Joanne Leow
Olivia Ho
The Violence of Recognition: Adavasi Indigeneity and Anti-Dalitness in India - Pinky Hota
Rituparna Mondal
Adam - Gboyega Odubanjo
The Lantern and the Night Moths - Yilin Wang
Devika Karnad
Afterglow: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors - Ed. by Grist
Absolution - Jeff VanderMeer
Juni Kvarving
Cinema Love - Jiaming Tang
Luna Chou
The Shoulders We Stand On - Preeti Dhillon
Angelique Golding
