
Wasafiri 30: Mauritian Writing in English
Issue 30: Autumn 1999
Mauritian Writing in English
Interview with Amit Chaudhuri
Fiction by Lindsey Collen and Ron Ramdin
Poems by Martin Bennett, Darius Cooper, Anand Sawant Mulloo and Elaine Savory
Essay by Tabish Khair
Articles on the death of theory, Franzt Fanon and a survey of Mauritian writing in English
Reviews of Aamer Hussein's This Other Salt, Oonya Kempadoo's Buxton Spice Mervyn Morris's ‘Is English We Speaking’: And Other Essays, Jack Mapanje's Skipping Without Ropes and Derek Walcott's What the Twilight Says: Essays
Contents
Susheila Nasta
Editorial
Tabish Khair
Why Postcolonialism Hates Revolutions
Robert Fraser
The Death of Theory: A Report From the Web
Darius Cooper
Poems: Monumental and Intimate Spaces and Trench Warfare
Elaine Savory
Poem: Cape Coast Castle, October 14, 1838: Letitia Elizabeth Langdon
Martin Bennett
Fiction: Triptych
Mauritian Writing in English
Nandini Bhautoo-Dewnarain
Mauritian Writing in English: A Survey
Anand Sawant Mulloo
Poem: Hurricane
Lindsey Collen
Extract from There is a Tide
Shawkat M Toorawa
‘Strange Bedfellows’? Mauritian Writers and Shakespeare
Shakuntala Hawoldar
Poem: I have seen strange things
Azize Asgarally
Fiction: The Pigeon and the Fish
Roger Moss
The Month the Music Died: A Visitor’s Diary: February 1999
Farhad Khoyratty
Poem: Sanam’s Pot
Dev Virahsawmy
Poem: Ozymandias
Meera V Pillay
Fiction: Homeward Bound
Fernando Galván
Interviews Amit Chaudhuri
Kaveri Woodward
Letters From Home
Ali A Abdi
Frantz Fanon and Postcolonial Realities: A Temporal Perspective
Martin Bennett
Passenger and other poems
Ron Ramdin
Extract from Rama’s Voyage
Reviews
Ian Tromp
Yusef Komunyakaa Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems
Yusef Komunyakaa Thieves of Paradise
Felicity Hand
M Keith Booker The African Novel in English: An Introduction
Derek Wright, ed Contemporary African Fiction
Firdous Azim
Aamer Hussein This Other Salt: Stories
Bruce King
David Dabydeen A Harlot’s Progress
Bev Braune
Mervyn Morris ‘Is English We Speaking’: And Other Essays
Jack Mapanje Skipping Without Ropes
Robyn Sassen
William Kentridge: A South African in Black and White
Carl A Wade
Louis J Parascandola, ed ‘Winds Can Wake Up The Dead’: An Eric Walrond Reader
C L Innes
Ezenwa-Ohaeto Chinua Achebe: A Biography
Jane Bryce
Oonya Kempadoo Buxton Spice
Shani Mootoo Cereus Blooms At Night
Claudia Wilholt
Kenneth C Kaleta Hanif Kureishi: Postcolonial Storyteller
Bart Moore-Gilbert
Tracy Mishkin The Harlem and Irish Renaissances: Language, Identity, and Representation
Ian Tromp
Derek Walcott What the Twilight Says: Essays
Ashok Bery
Joyoti Grech Travelling Home
Bashabi Fraser Life
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra The Transfiguring Process
Coomi S Vevaina
Nilufer E Bharucha and Vrinda Naber, ed Mapping Cultural Spaces: Postcolonial Indian Literature in English
Editorial
Tabish Khair
Why Postcolonialism Hates Revolutions
Robert Fraser
The Death of Theory: A Report From the Web
Darius Cooper
Poems: Monumental and Intimate Spaces and Trench Warfare
Elaine Savory
Poem: Cape Coast Castle, October 14, 1838: Letitia Elizabeth Langdon
Martin Bennett
Fiction: Triptych
Mauritian Writing in English
Nandini Bhautoo-Dewnarain
Mauritian Writing in English: A Survey
Anand Sawant Mulloo
Poem: Hurricane
Lindsey Collen
Extract from There is a Tide
Shawkat M Toorawa
‘Strange Bedfellows’? Mauritian Writers and Shakespeare
Shakuntala Hawoldar
Poem: I have seen strange things
Azize Asgarally
Fiction: The Pigeon and the Fish
Roger Moss
The Month the Music Died: A Visitor’s Diary: February 1999
Farhad Khoyratty
Poem: Sanam’s Pot
Dev Virahsawmy
Poem: Ozymandias
Meera V Pillay
Fiction: Homeward Bound
Fernando Galván
Interviews Amit Chaudhuri
Kaveri Woodward
Letters From Home
Ali A Abdi
Frantz Fanon and Postcolonial Realities: A Temporal Perspective
Martin Bennett
Passenger and other poems
Ron Ramdin
Extract from Rama’s Voyage
Reviews
Ian Tromp
Yusef Komunyakaa Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems
Yusef Komunyakaa Thieves of Paradise
Felicity Hand
M Keith Booker The African Novel in English: An Introduction
Derek Wright, ed Contemporary African Fiction
Firdous Azim
Aamer Hussein This Other Salt: Stories
Bruce King
David Dabydeen A Harlot’s Progress
Bev Braune
Mervyn Morris ‘Is English We Speaking’: And Other Essays
Jack Mapanje Skipping Without Ropes
Robyn Sassen
William Kentridge: A South African in Black and White
Carl A Wade
Louis J Parascandola, ed ‘Winds Can Wake Up The Dead’: An Eric Walrond Reader
C L Innes
Ezenwa-Ohaeto Chinua Achebe: A Biography
Jane Bryce
Oonya Kempadoo Buxton Spice
Shani Mootoo Cereus Blooms At Night
Claudia Wilholt
Kenneth C Kaleta Hanif Kureishi: Postcolonial Storyteller
Bart Moore-Gilbert
Tracy Mishkin The Harlem and Irish Renaissances: Language, Identity, and Representation
Ian Tromp
Derek Walcott What the Twilight Says: Essays
Ashok Bery
Joyoti Grech Travelling Home
Bashabi Fraser Life
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra The Transfiguring Process
Coomi S Vevaina
Nilufer E Bharucha and Vrinda Naber, ed Mapping Cultural Spaces: Postcolonial Indian Literature in English
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