
Wasafiri 26
Issue 26: Autumn 1997
Interviews with Caryl Phillips, George Lamming and Salman Rushdie
Poems by Debjani Chatterjee, Tabish Khair, E A Markahm, Ra Page, Sudeep Sen and Kelwyn Sole
Fiction by Attia Hosain
Essay by Mervyn Morris
Articles on dub poetry, The Harder They Come, Indian literatures in the 1990s, recent novels by Indian women writers and Nirad C Chaudhuri at one hundred
Reviews of Sunetra Gupta's Moonlight into Marzipan, Tabish Khair's An Angel in Pajamas, Earl Lovelace's Salt and Uche Nduke's Chiaroscuro
Contents
Bart Moore-Gilbert
Anglo-Saxon Attitudes: Empire, Race and English Studies in Contemporary University Fiction
E A Markham
Poems: Vulgar Assumptions and Insomnia
Caryl Phillips
Interviews George Lamming
Ra Page
Poems: Small Print and Hahram
Kelwyn Sole
Poems: Consumption and Homecoming
Christina Lupton
Hierarchies of Vision: The Narrator’s View in Two Visions of Africa
Newton Aduaka
Fiction: Where Did the Mountains Go?
Bev Braune
‘You Can Get It if You Really Want’: Viewing The Harder They Come Again and Again
Ashok Bery
Independence Day: Reading Indian Literatures in the 1990s
Debjani Chatterjee
Summer Anniversaries
Vijay Lakshmi
Fiction: Greenwich Line
Tabish Khair
The Immigrant Maometto to Dante and other poems
Alastair Niven
Dedications and Inscriptions: Nirad C Chaudhuri at 100
Basir Sultan Kazmi
Though it Takes a While and other poems
Alastair Niven
Interviews Salman Rushdie
Geetanjali Singh Chanda, Elaine Yee Lin Ho and Kavita Mathai
Women in ‘India’: Four Recent Novels
Sudeep Sen
Poems: Bharatanatyam Dancer and Single Malt
Attia Hosain
Fiction: Journey to No End
Mervyn Morris
A Note on ‘Dub Poetry’
Jacqueline Johnson
Poem: The Picture
Alfred Celestine
Poem: Fragments from a Time-table
Bernadette Dyer
Fiction: Soup Morning
Reviews
Sandra Ponzanesi
Sunetra Gupta Moonlight into Marzipan
Jamal Mahjoub
Anthony Minghella, dir The English Patient
Ranjana Sidhanta Ash
Tabish Khair An Angel in Pyjamas
Adib Khan Seasonal Adjustments
Debjani Chatterjee
Basir Sultan Kazmi The Chess Board
Charles Sarvan
Jyotsna G Singh Colonial Narratives/Cultural Dialogues: ‘Discoveries’ of India in the Language of Colonialism
Peter Morey
Kate Teltscher India Inscribed: European and British Writing on India 1600– 1800
Harish Trivedi Colonial Transactions: English Literature and India
Jane Bryce
Earl Lovelace Salt
David Dabydeen The Counting House
Jamal Mahjoub
Joan Riley and Briar Wood, ed Leave to Stay: Stories of Exile and Belonging
Harald Leusmann
Patrick Chamoiseau Texaco
Nigel Rigby
Tim Youngs, ed Travellers in Africa: British Travelogues, 1850-1900
Rustum Kozain
Tanure Ojaide Poetic Imagination in Black Africa: Essays on African Poetry
Imogen Forster
Kathryn Castle Britannia’s Children: Reading Colonialism through Children’s Books and Magazines
Uwe Schäfer
Uche Nduka Chiaroscuro
Anglo-Saxon Attitudes: Empire, Race and English Studies in Contemporary University Fiction
E A Markham
Poems: Vulgar Assumptions and Insomnia
Caryl Phillips
Interviews George Lamming
Ra Page
Poems: Small Print and Hahram
Kelwyn Sole
Poems: Consumption and Homecoming
Christina Lupton
Hierarchies of Vision: The Narrator’s View in Two Visions of Africa
Newton Aduaka
Fiction: Where Did the Mountains Go?
Bev Braune
‘You Can Get It if You Really Want’: Viewing The Harder They Come Again and Again
Ashok Bery
Independence Day: Reading Indian Literatures in the 1990s
Debjani Chatterjee
Summer Anniversaries
Vijay Lakshmi
Fiction: Greenwich Line
Tabish Khair
The Immigrant Maometto to Dante and other poems
Alastair Niven
Dedications and Inscriptions: Nirad C Chaudhuri at 100
Basir Sultan Kazmi
Though it Takes a While and other poems
Alastair Niven
Interviews Salman Rushdie
Geetanjali Singh Chanda, Elaine Yee Lin Ho and Kavita Mathai
Women in ‘India’: Four Recent Novels
Sudeep Sen
Poems: Bharatanatyam Dancer and Single Malt
Attia Hosain
Fiction: Journey to No End
Mervyn Morris
A Note on ‘Dub Poetry’
Jacqueline Johnson
Poem: The Picture
Alfred Celestine
Poem: Fragments from a Time-table
Bernadette Dyer
Fiction: Soup Morning
Reviews
Sandra Ponzanesi
Sunetra Gupta Moonlight into Marzipan
Jamal Mahjoub
Anthony Minghella, dir The English Patient
Ranjana Sidhanta Ash
Tabish Khair An Angel in Pyjamas
Adib Khan Seasonal Adjustments
Debjani Chatterjee
Basir Sultan Kazmi The Chess Board
Charles Sarvan
Jyotsna G Singh Colonial Narratives/Cultural Dialogues: ‘Discoveries’ of India in the Language of Colonialism
Peter Morey
Kate Teltscher India Inscribed: European and British Writing on India 1600– 1800
Harish Trivedi Colonial Transactions: English Literature and India
Jane Bryce
Earl Lovelace Salt
David Dabydeen The Counting House
Jamal Mahjoub
Joan Riley and Briar Wood, ed Leave to Stay: Stories of Exile and Belonging
Harald Leusmann
Patrick Chamoiseau Texaco
Nigel Rigby
Tim Youngs, ed Travellers in Africa: British Travelogues, 1850-1900
Rustum Kozain
Tanure Ojaide Poetic Imagination in Black Africa: Essays on African Poetry
Imogen Forster
Kathryn Castle Britannia’s Children: Reading Colonialism through Children’s Books and Magazines
Uwe Schäfer
Uche Nduka Chiaroscuro
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