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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