Wasafiri 16: Special Caribbean Issue

Issue 16: Autumn 1992

Focus on the Caribbean

Essay by Kamau Brathwaite

Interviews with Jamaica Kincaid and Andrew Salkey

Fiction by Cyril Dabydeen and Marlene Nourbese Philip

Poetry by Fred D’Aguiar and Cyril Dabydeen

Reviews of Lawrence Scott's Witchbroom and Anne Walmsley's The Caribbean Artists' Movement 1966-1972

Kamau Brathwaite
Caliban’s Guarden

Fred D’Aguiar
Poem: 14927
Kenneth Ramchand
Columbus in Chains

Gerhard Dilger
Interviews Jamaica Kincaid

Phillip Nanton
Poem

Denise deCaires Narain
Body Language in the Works of Four Caribbean Women Poets

Lyn Innes
The African Writers’ Series: Thirty Years On

Ranjandaye Ramkissoon-Chan
Poems: The Unforgiving Father and Good Things Remembered

Marlene Nourbese Philip
Extract from The Imagination of Their Hearts

John Figueroa
Variation on Salkey’s Score

Cyril Dabydeen
Fiction: Go Tell Crosbie

Report on 9th ACLALS Conference

Anthony Ilona
Interviews Andrew Salkey

Kendel Hippolyte
A Caribbean Round and other poems

Michael Gilkes
Confluences: Reconciling Life and Language in the Poetry of John Robert Lee

John Robert Lee
Mango and other poems

Reviews

Lawrence Scott
Stewart Brown, ed The Art of Derek Walcott

Megan Stern
Carolivia Herron Thereafter Johnnie

Wilson Harris
Lawrence Scott Witchbroom

Nigel Rigby
Albert Wendt Ola

Catherine Cundy
Chinua Achebe and Lynn Innes, ed The Heinemann Book of Contemporary African Short Stories

Biyi Bandele
Adewale Maja-Pearce Who’s Afraid of Wole Soyinka? Essays on Censorship

Judith Hattaway
Sara Mills Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women’s Travel Writing and Colonialism

Kristina Masuwa
Frank Chipasula Whispers in the Wings
Jack Mapanje Of Chameleons and Gods
Tanure Ojaide The Blood of Peace and Other Poems

Malcolm Turvey
Lizbeth Malkmus and Roy Armes Arab and African Film Making

Shirley Chew
Gopal Baratham A Candle or the Sun

Helen Carr
Ronald Hyam Empire and Sexuality: The British Experience

Stewart Brown
Anne Walmsley The Caribbean Artists’ Movement 1966 – 1972

Angus Calder
Thomas Pakenham The Scramble for Africa 1876 – 1912

Hugh Donat
Walter Mosley A Red Death

Graeme Rigby
Kamau Brathwaite Middle Passages

Kenneth Ramchand and Anne Walmsley
Obituary: Paul Edwards