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Issue 101, Spring 2020

Wasafiri 101

Editorial  In Praise of Counterpublics

Lead Feature Somak  Ghoshal: The Art of Brexit

Interviews Shankari Chandran, Chigozie Obioma, Namwali Serpell

Articles Remembering Andrea Levy; Out of the George Padmore Institute Archive: Venetta Ross, John La Rose and the Production of New Roots in the West Indies

Art Manora Field Notes: Naiza Khan at the Venice Biennale

Fiction Lisa Allen-Agostini, Iheoma Nwachukwu

Poetry Khairani Barokka, Rosie DeSantis, Ines Rivera Prosdocimi

Life-writing Vedita Cowalusoor: Whose Colonial Nostalgia?

Review Essay Testimonial Innovation in Immigration Literature

and more...


Contents

Malachi McIntosh Editorial: In Praise of Counterpublics

 
Somak Ghoshal Article: Thresholds and Borders: Reflections on the Art of Brexit

 
Ines Rivera Prosdocimi

 
Poetry: Ama, In Pines and Poplars

 

 
Lisa Allen-Agostini

 

Birte Heidemann

 

 

 

Various Authors

 

 
Fiction: Crix and Coffee

 

Interview: Rewriting the Wrongs: Shankari Chandran, Genre and Civil War

 

Article: Remembering Andrea Levy
Rosie DeSantis

 

 

 
Poetry: Letter from Aiyana [returned to sender 5.16.2010]

 
Alexa Hazel

 

 

 

 

 

Sana Goyal

 

 

 

Nauman Khalid

 

 

Sreya Mallika Datta

 

 

 

Vedita Cowaloosur

 

 

 

Khairani Barokka

 

Iheoma Nwachukwu

 

 
Article: Out of the George Padmore Institute Archive: Venetta Ross, John La Rose, and the Creation of New Roots in the West Indies

 

Interview: Playing with the Book: Namwali Serpell on the ‘Great Zambian Novel’

 

Article: Manora Field Notes: Naiza Khan at the Venice Biennale

 

Interview: Silence is the Tool of the Unconcerned: An Interview with Chigozie Obioma

 

Article: Whose Colonial Nostalgia? Reminders for Jeetny and Her Daughters

 

Poetry: answer

 

Fiction: Igwe Manchester

 

 
 

Reviews
 

 

 
Kenna Neitch

 
Review Essay: Testimonial Innovation in Immigration Literature

We Are Here to Stay: Voices of Undocumented Young Adults

Susan Kuklin

 

Lost Children Archive

Valeria Luiselli

 

Knitting the Fog

Claudia D. Hernández

 
 
Ranka Primorac

 
These Bones Will Rise Again

Panashe Chigumadzi

 
 
Mohammad Farhan

 
Translations from Memories

Fred D’Aguiar

The Coming of the Little Green Man

John Agard

 
 
Clayton Tomlinson

 
Washington Black

Esi Edugyan

 
 
Florian Stadtler Annotating Salman Rushdie: Reading the Postcolonial

Vijay Mishra

 
 
J.R. Ramakrishnan

 
Insignificance: Hong Kong Stories

Xu Xi

 
 
W.B. Gooderham

 
The Life of Saul Bellow - Volume 1: To Fame and Fortune (1915 – 1964)

The Life of Saul Bellow - Volume 2: Love and Strife (1965 – 2005)

Zachary Leader

 
 
Chris Dunton

 
An Orchestra of Minorities

Chigozie Obioma

My Sister, the Serial Killer

Oyinkan Braithwaite

 
 
Suparna Banerjee I Have Become the Tide

Githa Hariharan

 
 
Emma Crowley

 
After Said: Postcolonial Literary Studies in the Twenty-First Century

Bashir Abu-Manneh, ed.

Postcolonialism after World Literature: Relation, Equality, Dissent

Lorna Burns

 
 
Imani Robinson and Ebun Sodipo

 

 
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments

Saidiya Hartman

 
 
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