Wasafiri 13: Focus on South Asian Writing
Focus on South Asian Writing Interviews with M G Vassanji Fiction by M G Vassanji and Lakshmi Kannan Poetry by Debjani Chatterjee, Tariq Latif and R Raj Roa Articles on South Asian literature in Britain and Multiculturalism
Highlights
Interviews with M G Vassanji
Fiction by M G Vassanji and Lakshmi Kannan
Poetry by Debjani Chatterjee, Tariq Latif and R Raj Roa
Articles on South Asian literature in Britain and Multiculturalism in education
Reviews of Salman Rushdie's Haroun and the Sea of Stories and Wole Soyinka's ‘Isara’: A Voyage Around ‘Essay’
Contents
Susheila Nasta
Editorial Note
Ronald Warwick
Studies of South Asian Literature in Britain: A Personal View
Lakshmi Holmström
The Inner Courtyard: Making an Anthology
Venkat Rao
Self Formations: Speculations on the question of Postcoloniality
Annie Koshi
The Afro-Asian and American Dreams of Race Relations in Bahadur Tejani’s Day After Tomorrow
Anders Sjobohm
‘Someone Smashed in the Door and Gave Me My Freedom’: The Writings of Jean Arasanayagam
Agnes Lam
British Universities and Black/Asian Candidates
Susheila Nasta
Interviews M G Vassanji
Debjani Chatterjee
To the English Language and other poems
Lakshmi Kannan
Poems: Burnt Brown by the Sun and Draupadi
P N Banerji
On Seeing the Saffron Robed Man by the Ganges, Varanasi
K G Sankara Pillai
Poem: Photos in Various Poses (E V Ramakrishnan, trans)
R Raj Rao
Poem: On Visiting Jejuri Ten Years After Kolatkar’s Famous Poem
Varavar Rao
Poem: From Voice of Unity
Tariq Latif
Poem: Uncle Mustka
Bibek Jena
Poem: Prayer (Bibhu Padhi, trans)
Kakoli Thompson
Fiction: In the Last Light
Lakshmi Kannan
Fiction: Parijata
M G Vassanji
Fiction: Leaving
Reviews
Robert Bush
Pleasures and Sufferings of Different Worlds: The Novels of Adam Zameenzad
Catherine Cundy
Paul Scott: Conflicts and Obsessions
A R Bex
Salman Rushdie Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Imogen Forster
Adewale Maja-Pearce How Many Miles to Babylon?
Gabriel Gbadamosi
Wole Soyinka ‘Ìsarà’: A Voyage Around ‘Essay’
Dennis Walder
Lyn Innes Chinua Achebe
John Craddock
Roy and Clifford Narinesingh, ed Sunshine and Shadow: A Caribbean Anthology
Maureen Alcorn and Amanda Ebborn, ed Squeeze Words Hard: Poetry for GCSE
Abdul Malik, ed De Home Place: Poems for Renewal by Young People of Caribbean Origin
C W Watson
John Welch, ed Stories from South Asia
David Saunders
New Literatures in English: Cross Cultural Readings
Film
Malcolm Turvey
African Cinema: A Brief Overview
Maggy Hendry
The Kitchen Toto , Harry Hook, 1987