Wasafiri 103
Wasafiri Issue 103
Editorial The Unbearable Lightness of Whiteness
Interviews Cathy Park Hong; Alex Wheatle
Articles ‘Whitely’: Race and Lyric Subjectivity in Clare Pollard’s Poetry; Re-Reading Penelope Lively’s Oleander Jacaranda; Other White
Art Thinking Through Race in Bruce Nauman's Body Painting
Fiction Laure Baudot, Alicia Mietus, Lijia Zhang
Poetry Jennie Owen, Bibhu Padhi, Desirée Seebaran, Jeremy Wikeley
Life-writing Claire Hynes, Ruby D. Jones
Review Essay Political and Planetary Panic: Penning Motherhood in Trump’s America
Reviews Claire Adam, Golden Child; Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff, ed., Mother Country: Real
Stories of the Windrush Children; Hebe Uhart, The Scent of Buenos Aires;
Fikr Taunsvi, The Sixth River: A Journal from the Partition of India
and more...
Contents
Editorial
The Unbearable Lightness of Whiteness
Malachi McIntosh
Articles
An Island of Whiteness: Rereading Penelope Lively’s Oleander, Jacaranda (1994)
Emma Parker
‘Whitely’: Race and Lyric Subjectivity in Clare Pollard’s Poetry
Kayo Chingonyi
Other White
Monique Roffey
Art
Sinking Colour/Colouring Skin: Thinking through Race in Bruce Nauman’s Body Painting
Levi Prombaum
Life Writing
Room
Claire Hynes
Born in the USSR: Soundtrack to a Childhood
Naneh V Hovhannisyan
Natural Causes
Ruby D Jones
Interviews
Reggae, Roots and the Brixton Bard: Carolyn Cooper Talks to Alex Wheatle
Carolyn Cooper
On Minor Feelings: Cathy Park Hong
Sharlene Teo
Fiction
Spring Flower
Lijia Zhang
Third Person Female
Alicia Mietus
Frenemies
Laure Baudot
Poetry
Early Morning Facts and a Few Questions
Bibhu Padhi
El Nabatat Island
Jeremy Wikeley
Today My Heart Is
Jennie Owen
Picong
Desirée Seebaran
Reviews
Review Essay: Political and Planetary Panic: Penning Motherhood in Trump’s America
Mira Jacob, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
Devi S Laskar, The Atlas of Reds and Blues
Jenny Offill, Weather
Sana Goyal
Farhan Samanani, Race in Britain: Inequality, Identity and Belonging
Lara Choksey
Patricia Smith, Incendiary Art
Paul Maddern, The Tipping Line
Ines P Rivera Prosdocimi
Lawrence Aje, Thomas Lacroix and Judith Misrahi-Barak, eds, Re-imagining the Guyanas
Alastair Niven
Claire Adam, Golden Child
Laëtitia Saint-Loubert
Maaz Bin Bilal, Ghazalnāma: Poems from Delhi, Belfast, and Urdu
Fikr Taunsvi, trans. by Maaz Bin Bilal, The Sixth River: A Journal from the Partition of India
Fatima Naveed
Hebe Uhart, trans. by Maureen Shaughnessy, The Scent of Buenos Aires: Stories by Hebe Uhart
Kei Miller, In Nearby Bushes
Valerie L Popp
Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff, ed., Mother Country: Real Stories of the Windrush Children
Ra Page, ed., Resist: Stories of Uprising
Samanta Bellotta
Alev Adil, Aydın Mehmet Ali, Bahriye Kemal and Maria Petrides, eds, Nicosia beyond Barriers:
Voices from a Divided City
Chris Campbell
Alex Tickell, ed., The Novel in South and South East Asia since 1945
Emma Bird
Natasha Kanapé Fontaine, trans. by Howard Scott, Blueberries and Apricots
Joseph A Dandurand, SH:LAM (The Doctor)
Nisha Ramayya
Dean Atta, illustrated by Anshika Khullar, The Black Flamingo
Jana Funke
Nikhil Govind, Inlays of Subjectivity: Affect and Action in Modern Indian Literature
E Dawson Varughes
