Wasafiri 107: Crisis/Recovery
Wasafiri Issue 107
Editorial In the Wake of the Wake of the Wake
Interviews Paul Mendez, Niven Govinden, Ivan Vladislavić, Arundhati Roy
Articles J M Coetzee and African Studies; Yvonne Vera and the Craft of Writing; Of Women's Bonds: Female Friendships and Feminist Ethics of Care in Tabish Khair's Just Another Jihadi Jane
Art Painting the Sea and Sky; Pandemic Vicissitudes and Contemporary Art in Singapore
Fiction Michelle Hamadache, Karina Lickorish Quinn
Poetry Hala Alyan, Cecilia Knapp, Shakespeare Okuni, Celia A Sorhaindo
Life Writing Jessica Gaitán Johannesson, S J Kim
Review Essay Writing Watersheds: Climate, Prejudice, and Paranoia
Reviews Women Dreaming, Salma; The Orchid Folios, Mok Zining; Igifu, Scholastique Mukasonga; Lives Lost: In Search of a New Tomorrow, Saeed Yousef; Postcolonial Disaster, Pallavi Rastogi; Travelling while Black, Nanjala Nyabola; Antiemetic for Homesickness, Romalyn Ante
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Contents
Editorial
1 IN THE WAKE OF THE WAKE OF THE WAKE
Malachi McIntosh
Articles
J M COETZEE AND AFRICAN STUDIES David Attwell 32 MAXIMUM SPACE AROUND THE TYPEWRITER: YVONNE VERA AND THE CRAFT OF WRITING Jessica Hemmings 51 OF WOMEN'S BONDS: FEMALE FRIENDSHIP AND FEMINIST ETHICS OF CARE IN TABISH KHAIR'S JUST ANOTHER JIHADI JANE Indrani Karmakar
Life Writing
4 'WHAT HAVE I DONE?' AND OTHER ILLUSIONS OF CONTROL Jessica Gaitán Johannesson 81 정 S J Kim
Interviews
14 DOING THE WORK, WITH PAUL MENDEZ AND NIVEN GOVINDEN Octavia Bright 26 ACTS OF FAITH AND FRIGHTENING FICTIONS: AN INTERVIEW WITH IVAN VLADISLAVIĆ Sisonke Msimang 41 THE SYNTAX OF EVERYDAY INJUSTICE: A CONVERSATION WITH ARUNDHATI ROY Pavan Kumar Malreddy
Art
10 READING THE PAST AND THE PRESENT, PAINTING THE SEA AND THE SKY Kabe Wilson 59 WHAT THE CENTRE CANNOT HOLD: PANDEMIC VICISSITUDES AND CONTEMPORARY ART IN SINGAPORE Adele Tan
Fiction
70 ZOHIRA Michelle Hamadache 76 BREAKFAST AT THE WINDSOR MIRAMAR Karina Lickorish Quinn
Poetry
3 MY BROTHER QUIT DRINKING MAYBE FIVE TIMES Cecilia Knapp 50 TWO POEMS: 'I WILL BEGIN' and 'SPICES, INK, AND PAPER' Shakespeare Okuni 69 KNOCK ON WOOD Celia A Sorhaindo 75 RELAPSE DREAM ENDING WITH MY GRANDMOTHER'S HANDS Hala Alyan
Reviews
90 REVIEW ESSAY: 'WRITING WATERSHEDS': CLIMATE, PREJUDICE, AND PARANOIA Gigantic Cinema: A Weather Anthology – Alice Oswald and Paul Keegan, eds. Red Pill – Hari Kunzru Should We Fall Behind – Sharon Duggal Dzifa Benson 93 Hashim and Family – Shahnaz Ahsan Suparna Banerjee 95 Women Dreaming – Salma, trans. by Meena Kandasamy Priyanka Hutschenreiter 96 The Orchid Folios – Mok Zining Yue Wang 97 Igifu – Scholastique Mukasonga, trans. by Jordan Stump Anna Giulia Novero 99 Tazmamart – Aziz BineBine, trans. by Lulu Norman Lives Lost: In Search of a New tomorrow – Saeed Yousef, foreword by Shahrzad Mojab, trans. by Ahad Bahadori, illustrated by Ava Raha David Rudd-Mitchell 101 Postcolonial Disaster: Narrating Catastrophe in the Twenty-First Century – Pallavi Rastogi Treasa De Loughry 102 Travelling While Black: Essays Inspired by a Life on the Move – Nanjala Nyabola Ranka Primorac 103 Antiemetic for Homesickness – Romalyn Ante Jennifer Wong 105 The Giant Dark – Sarvat Hasin Sana Goyal
