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Issue 110, Summer 2022

Wasafiri 110: Afterlives of Indenture

Guest edited by Andil Gosine and Nalini Mohabir, Wasafiri 110: Afterlives of Indenture explores the legacy of indentured workers across the Indo-Caribbean, and the diasporic experience. With fiction from Ingrid Persuad and Stephen Narain, a conversation between Richard Fung and Ramabai Espinet, life writing from Maria del Pilar Kaladeen, and more, Wasafiri 110 is testament to the legacy that indentureship leaves, and the ways in which affected communities process and reclaim their histories.


Contents

Editorial

Afterlives of Indenture 
Andil Gosine and Nailini Mohabir

Articles

From the Edges: Afterlives of Chinese Indenture and Patricia Powell's The Pagoda 
Tzarina Prater
 
Im/possibly Black: The Coolie Poetics of Bazodee
Andre Basheir

Life Writing

Wrecking Ball: Conversing with Gina Miller 
Maria del Pilar Kaladeen

The Ghosts of Brechin Castle
Kevin Jared Hosein

Interviews

Talking Histories, Making Stories 
Ramabai Espinet and Richard Fung

Gender, Politics, and Labour in the Language of the Cane Fields: An Interview with Basdeo Panday
Nalini Mohabir

Art

Kelly Sinnapah Mary's 
Quarantine Andil Gosine

Fiction

The Burke Street Chronicles 
Ingrid Persaud

Temple in the Sea 
Stephen Narain

Poetry

Uncle Joe; The Mockingbird Sings of Gung-Gung 
Ann-Margaret Lim

Canefield 
Shivanee Ramlochan

Waterloo; Bangladesh 
Amílcar Sanatan

After the Travancore 
Linzey Corridon

A Discontinuous Line 
Kaie Kellough

Small Days (Six Poems): The Age of Reason; The Industrial Revolution; The City-States of the Middle Ages; The Relation of the Greek to His Government; The Dictatorship of the Proletariat; The Desire for Equality 
Faizal Deen

We 
Shani Mootoo

Reviews

Review Essay: Memory, Inheritance: Three Recent Works on the Afterlives of Indenture 
The Deepest Dye: Obeah, Hosay, and Race in the Atlantic World – Aisha Khan
Bittersweet – Natasha Ramoutar
Women, Gender and the Legacy of Slavery and Indenture – Farzana Gounder, Kalpana Hiralal, Amba Pande, and Maurits S Hassankhan, eds Kaneesha Cherelle Parsard

Fragments of Epic Memory – Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 
Nalini Mohabir

Antiman: A Hybrid Memoir – Rajiv Mohabir 
Andre Bagoo

The Undiscovered Country – Andre Bagoo
 Rajiv Mohabir

Inside the Invisible: Memorialising Slavery and Freedom in the Life and Works of Lubaina Himid – Celeste-Marie Bernier, Alan Rice, Lubaina Himid, and Hannah Durkin 
Sabrina Rahman

Liminal Spaces: Migration and Women of the Guyanese Diaspora – Grace Aneiza Ali, ed
Celeste Hamilton Dennis

On Borders: Territories, Legitimacy, and the Rights of Place – Paulina Ochoa Espejo
Olajide Salawu

Among the Contributors

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