
Wasafiri 29: Taking the Cake - Black Writing in Britain
Issue 29: Spring 1999
Taking the Cake: Black Writing in Britain
Interviews with Rasheed Araeen, David Dabydeen, Maya Jaggi, Jackie Kay and Susheila Nasta
Poems by Leila Aboulela, Mark de Brito, Bernardine Evaristo, Gabriel Gbadamosi, Elaine Savory, Dorothea Smartt and Janet Kofi-Tsekpo
Fiction by David Dabydeen and Romesh Gunesekera
Essays by Homi Bhabha, Stuart Hall and Caryl Phillips
Articles on George Lamming, Sam Selvon, Mustapha Matura and race relations after Stephen Lawrence
Reviews of Kiran Desai's Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, Mike and Trevor Phillips' Windrush: The Irresistible Rise of Multi-Racial Britain, Romesh Gunesekera's The Sandglass, Ben Okri's Infinite Riches, Bernardine Evaristo's Lara and Lemn Sissay's The Fire People: A Collection of Contemporary Black British Poets
Contents
Susheila Nasta
Editorial: Taking the Cake
Helen Thomas
Black on White: Textual Spaces in Black Britain
Sandra Courtman
What is Missing from the Picture? Reading Desire in the Dyche Studio Photographs of the Windrush Generation
Mark de Brito
Heron’s Canoe, extracts from a poem-in-progress
Kwame Dawes
Negotiating the Ship on The Head: Black British Fiction
Elaine Savory
Poem: Bristol seaport: 1731
Shanta Acharya
Poems: At the Edge of the World and Taking Stock
Mark Stein
Interviews David Dabydeen
David Dabydeen
Extract from A Harlot’s Progress
Giles Goodland
Gurney and other poems
Leila Aboulela
Prose poem: The Houriyah
Caryl Phillips
Following On: The Legacy of Lamming and Selvon
Reinventing Britain: A Forum
Stuart Hall
Opening Remarks
Homi K Bhabha
The Manifesto
Susheila Nasta and Rasheed Araeen
Discussion: Radio 3 ‘Night Waves’
Stuart Hall
Closing Remarks
Janet Kofi-Tsekpo
Poems: Freedom and Return
Rasheed Araeen
Responses
Gabriel Gbadamosi
Poem: Back Bedrooms
Sonia Boyce
Challenging Modern Art History
Dorothea Smartt
Low tide at tendaba and other poems
Bernardine Evaristo
A response to Homi Bhabha’s Manifesto
Bernardine Evaristo
Poems: Just An Old Bag of Bones and Post-Ice London
Reeta Chakrabarti
On race relations after Stephen Lawrence
Chris Hardy
Poems: Hunting the Basking Shark and Long Gone
Richard Dyer and Maya Jaggi
Interview Jackie Kay
Romesh Gunesekera
Fiction: The Emporium of the Durians
E A Markham
Poem: On George Lamming’s Couch
Raimund Schäffner
Assimilation, Separatism and Multiculturalism in Mustapha Matura’s Welcome Home Jacko and Caryl Phillips’ Strange Fruit
Vikas Mohan
Fiction: Comedy Night at the Alcazar
Reviews
E A Markham
Trevor and Mike Phillips, ed Windrush: The Irresistible Rise of Multi-Racial Britain
Onyekachi Wambu, ed Empire Windrush: Fifty Years of Writing About Black Britain
Richard Dyer
Chris Ofili: Exhibition
Ian Dieffenthaller
Lemn Sissay, ed The Fire People: A Collection of Contemporary Black British Poets
Mark Angelo de Brito Bigistong
Patricia Powell
Lawrence Scott Aelred’s Sin
Stewart Brown
Bernardine Evaristo Lara
Paula Burnett
Romesh Gunesekera The Sandglass
A Sivanandan When Memory Dies
Robert Fraser
Ato Quayson, ed Strategic Transformations in Nigerian Writing
Ben Okri Infinite Riches
Lawrence Scott
Robert Antoni Blessed is the Fruit
Frank Martinus Arion Double Play
Mark Stein
S I Martin Incomparable World
Silvia Albertazzi
Kiran Desai Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard
Manju Kapur Difficult Daughters
Denise deCaires Narain
Joan Anim-Addo Haunted by History
Karen McCarthy, ed Bittersweet: Contemporary Black Women’s Poetry
David Huddart
Dennis Walder Postcolonial Literatures in English: History, Language, Theory
Ronald Warwick
Debjani Chatterjee Albino Gecko
Jackie Kay Off Colour
Jamal Mahjoub
Paul Theroux Sir Vidia’s Shadow: A Friendship Across Five Continents
Editorial: Taking the Cake
Helen Thomas
Black on White: Textual Spaces in Black Britain
Sandra Courtman
What is Missing from the Picture? Reading Desire in the Dyche Studio Photographs of the Windrush Generation
Mark de Brito
Heron’s Canoe, extracts from a poem-in-progress
Kwame Dawes
Negotiating the Ship on The Head: Black British Fiction
Elaine Savory
Poem: Bristol seaport: 1731
Shanta Acharya
Poems: At the Edge of the World and Taking Stock
Mark Stein
Interviews David Dabydeen
David Dabydeen
Extract from A Harlot’s Progress
Giles Goodland
Gurney and other poems
Leila Aboulela
Prose poem: The Houriyah
Caryl Phillips
Following On: The Legacy of Lamming and Selvon
Reinventing Britain: A Forum
Stuart Hall
Opening Remarks
Homi K Bhabha
The Manifesto
Susheila Nasta and Rasheed Araeen
Discussion: Radio 3 ‘Night Waves’
Stuart Hall
Closing Remarks
Janet Kofi-Tsekpo
Poems: Freedom and Return
Rasheed Araeen
Responses
Gabriel Gbadamosi
Poem: Back Bedrooms
Sonia Boyce
Challenging Modern Art History
Dorothea Smartt
Low tide at tendaba and other poems
Bernardine Evaristo
A response to Homi Bhabha’s Manifesto
Bernardine Evaristo
Poems: Just An Old Bag of Bones and Post-Ice London
Reeta Chakrabarti
On race relations after Stephen Lawrence
Chris Hardy
Poems: Hunting the Basking Shark and Long Gone
Richard Dyer and Maya Jaggi
Interview Jackie Kay
Romesh Gunesekera
Fiction: The Emporium of the Durians
E A Markham
Poem: On George Lamming’s Couch
Raimund Schäffner
Assimilation, Separatism and Multiculturalism in Mustapha Matura’s Welcome Home Jacko and Caryl Phillips’ Strange Fruit
Vikas Mohan
Fiction: Comedy Night at the Alcazar
Reviews
E A Markham
Trevor and Mike Phillips, ed Windrush: The Irresistible Rise of Multi-Racial Britain
Onyekachi Wambu, ed Empire Windrush: Fifty Years of Writing About Black Britain
Richard Dyer
Chris Ofili: Exhibition
Ian Dieffenthaller
Lemn Sissay, ed The Fire People: A Collection of Contemporary Black British Poets
Mark Angelo de Brito Bigistong
Patricia Powell
Lawrence Scott Aelred’s Sin
Stewart Brown
Bernardine Evaristo Lara
Paula Burnett
Romesh Gunesekera The Sandglass
A Sivanandan When Memory Dies
Robert Fraser
Ato Quayson, ed Strategic Transformations in Nigerian Writing
Ben Okri Infinite Riches
Lawrence Scott
Robert Antoni Blessed is the Fruit
Frank Martinus Arion Double Play
Mark Stein
S I Martin Incomparable World
Silvia Albertazzi
Kiran Desai Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard
Manju Kapur Difficult Daughters
Denise deCaires Narain
Joan Anim-Addo Haunted by History
Karen McCarthy, ed Bittersweet: Contemporary Black Women’s Poetry
David Huddart
Dennis Walder Postcolonial Literatures in English: History, Language, Theory
Ronald Warwick
Debjani Chatterjee Albino Gecko
Jackie Kay Off Colour
Jamal Mahjoub
Paul Theroux Sir Vidia’s Shadow: A Friendship Across Five Continents
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