
Wasafiri 17: Focus on Writing in Britain
Focus on Writing in Britain. Interviews with Joan Riley and Shashi Deshpande Poetry by Shanta Acharya, Debjani Chatterjee, Tariq Latif, Tanure Ojaide, Ian Iqbal Rashid, Tariq Latif and Satyendra Srivastava Fiction by Nadeem Aslam...
Issue 17: Spring 1993
Focus on Writing in Britain
Interviews with Joan Riley and Shashi Deshpande
Poetry by Shanta Acharya, Debjani Chatterjee, Tariq Latif, Tanure Ojaide, Ian Iqbal Rashid, Tariq Latif and Satyendra Srivastava
Fiction by Nadeem Aslam, June Henfrey, Minoli Salgado and Jan Shinebourne
Reviews of Romesh Gunesekera's Monkfish Moon, Ousmane Sembene's Guelwaar, Toni Morrison's Jazz and Meja Mwangi's Striving for the Wind
Contents
Seema Jena
From Victims to Survivors: The Anti-Hero as a Narrative Strategy in Asian Immigrant Writing
Ian Iqbal Rashid
A Pass to India and other poems
Tariq Latif
Poem: Here to Stay
Jane Bryce and Kari Darko
Textual Deviancy and Cultural Syncretism: Romantic Fiction as a Subversive Strain in Black Women’s Writing
Tanure Ojaide
Poem: Lemon Memor
Zhana
Poems: Mother East and From the Warrior
Aamer Hussein
Interviews Joan Riley
Horlene Mowatt
Poem: Who am I?
Shanta Acharya
Poem: Absence
Debjani Chatterjee
Poem: Visiting E M Forster
Satyendra Srivastava
Poems: Hindi-Urdu and The Ticket
Lakshmi Holmström
Interviews Shashi Deshpande
Jan Shinebourne
Fiction: Oh Buddha
Tanure Ojaide
Poem: Reclamation
Minoli Salgado
Fiction: Getting to No
Robert Bush
The National Curriculum and Multicultural Literature
June Henfrey
Fiction: The Canecutter
Nadeem Aslam
Extract from Season of the Rainbirds
Laura Peters
‘The Things You Do Not Know About Me’: The Schizophrenia of the Colonial Experience (A Report on the Tenth Commonwealth Women Writers’ Conference)
Ravinder Kaur
South Asian Films at the London Film Festival
Megan Stern
Making the Old Myth New: The Frontier in The Last of the Mohicans and Dances with Wolves
Phil Okwedy
Guelwaar by Ousmane Sembène
Reviews
Neloufer de Mel
Romesh Gunesekera Monkfish Moon
Rosemary Lucas
Valerie Bloom Duppy Jamboree and other Jamaican Poems
Gina Wisker
Toni Morrison Jazz
Bridget Jones
Simone Schwarz-Bart Between Two Worlds
Anthony Ilona
Olu Oguibe A Gathering of Fear: Poems
Thorunn Lonsdale
Alecia McKenzie Satellite City
Earl McKenzie Two Roads to Mount Joyful
Charles Sarvan
Chenjerai Hove Shadows
Tiyambe Zeleza Smouldering Charcoal
Marjory Caine
Douglas Dunn, ed The Faber Book of the Twentieth-Century Scottish
Alan Riach and Michael Grieve, ed Hugh MacDiarmid: Selected Poetry
Nana Grey-Johnson
Meja Mwangi Striving for the Wind
Ousmane Sembène Niiwan and Taaw
Debjani Chatterjee
Tariq Larif Skimming the Soul
Hena Maes-Jelinek
Alan Riach and Mark Williams, ed The Radical Imagination: Lectures and Talks by Wilson Harris
Jogamaya Bayer
May Opitz, Katharina Oguntoye and Dagmar Schultz, ed Showing our Colours: Afro-German Women Speak Out
Julie Minkler
Anthony Kellman, ed Crossing Water: Contemporary Poetry of the English-speaking Caribbean
Stewart Brown and Ian McDonald, ed The Heinemann Book of Caribbean Poetry
Karen King-Aribisala
Margaret Busby, ed Daughters of Africa
Helen Donlon
Isidore Okpewho Tides
Kristina Masuwa
Marion Molteno A Shield of Coolest Air
Lawrence Scott
Clem Maharaj The Dispossessed
Ian McDonald The Humming-bird Tree
Nigel Rigby
Kathryn Tidrick Empire and the English Character
David Turley
Graeme Rigby The Black Cook’s Historian
From Victims to Survivors: The Anti-Hero as a Narrative Strategy in Asian Immigrant Writing
Ian Iqbal Rashid
A Pass to India and other poems
Tariq Latif
Poem: Here to Stay
Jane Bryce and Kari Darko
Textual Deviancy and Cultural Syncretism: Romantic Fiction as a Subversive Strain in Black Women’s Writing
Tanure Ojaide
Poem: Lemon Memor
Zhana
Poems: Mother East and From the Warrior
Aamer Hussein
Interviews Joan Riley
Horlene Mowatt
Poem: Who am I?
Shanta Acharya
Poem: Absence
Debjani Chatterjee
Poem: Visiting E M Forster
Satyendra Srivastava
Poems: Hindi-Urdu and The Ticket
Lakshmi Holmström
Interviews Shashi Deshpande
Jan Shinebourne
Fiction: Oh Buddha
Tanure Ojaide
Poem: Reclamation
Minoli Salgado
Fiction: Getting to No
Robert Bush
The National Curriculum and Multicultural Literature
June Henfrey
Fiction: The Canecutter
Nadeem Aslam
Extract from Season of the Rainbirds
Laura Peters
‘The Things You Do Not Know About Me’: The Schizophrenia of the Colonial Experience (A Report on the Tenth Commonwealth Women Writers’ Conference)
Ravinder Kaur
South Asian Films at the London Film Festival
Megan Stern
Making the Old Myth New: The Frontier in The Last of the Mohicans and Dances with Wolves
Phil Okwedy
Guelwaar by Ousmane Sembène
Reviews
Neloufer de Mel
Romesh Gunesekera Monkfish Moon
Rosemary Lucas
Valerie Bloom Duppy Jamboree and other Jamaican Poems
Gina Wisker
Toni Morrison Jazz
Bridget Jones
Simone Schwarz-Bart Between Two Worlds
Anthony Ilona
Olu Oguibe A Gathering of Fear: Poems
Thorunn Lonsdale
Alecia McKenzie Satellite City
Earl McKenzie Two Roads to Mount Joyful
Charles Sarvan
Chenjerai Hove Shadows
Tiyambe Zeleza Smouldering Charcoal
Marjory Caine
Douglas Dunn, ed The Faber Book of the Twentieth-Century Scottish
Alan Riach and Michael Grieve, ed Hugh MacDiarmid: Selected Poetry
Nana Grey-Johnson
Meja Mwangi Striving for the Wind
Ousmane Sembène Niiwan and Taaw
Debjani Chatterjee
Tariq Larif Skimming the Soul
Hena Maes-Jelinek
Alan Riach and Mark Williams, ed The Radical Imagination: Lectures and Talks by Wilson Harris
Jogamaya Bayer
May Opitz, Katharina Oguntoye and Dagmar Schultz, ed Showing our Colours: Afro-German Women Speak Out
Julie Minkler
Anthony Kellman, ed Crossing Water: Contemporary Poetry of the English-speaking Caribbean
Stewart Brown and Ian McDonald, ed The Heinemann Book of Caribbean Poetry
Karen King-Aribisala
Margaret Busby, ed Daughters of Africa
Helen Donlon
Isidore Okpewho Tides
Kristina Masuwa
Marion Molteno A Shield of Coolest Air
Lawrence Scott
Clem Maharaj The Dispossessed
Ian McDonald The Humming-bird Tree
Nigel Rigby
Kathryn Tidrick Empire and the English Character
David Turley
Graeme Rigby The Black Cook’s Historian
Sign up
Sign-up to our newsletter and receive all our latest news straight to your inbox.