Wasafiri 31: The Long March - Migrant Writing in Europe
Issue 31: Spring 2000
The Long March: Migrant Writing in Europe
Interviews with Hélène Cixous and Mehdi Charef
Fiction by Assia Djebar
Poetry by Sujata Bhatt
Essays by Leila Aboulela and Jamal Mahjoub
Articles on migrant writing from Europe, Afro-Italian narratives, Aime Cesaire, Everlyn Nicodemus and on Algerian poetry of displacement
Reviews of Uche Nduka's The Bremen Poems, Tahar Ben Jelloun's Dove lo Stato non c’e, Courttia Newland's The Society Within, Alex Wheatle's Brixton Rock and Biyi Bandele's The Street
Contents
Robert Fraser
Editorial: The Long March
Jamal Mahjoub
One in the Garden of Plenty
Sophia Phoca
Interviews Hélène Cixous
Gil Tucker
Sun & Drum Drum and other poems
Sandra Ponzanesi
The Past Holds No Terror? Colonial Memories and of Afro-Italian Narratives
Maria Abbebù Viarengo
Scirscir’n demna
Jamal Mahjoub
Migrant Writing From Europe: A Gallery
Denmark: Munaim Alfaker
Spain: Donato Ndongo, Franciso Zamora Lococh, Justo Bolekiá
Germany: Sujata Bhatt, Parviz Sadighi, Zafer Senocak
Assia Djebar
Extract from Le Blanc d’Algerie
Robert Fraser
The Algerian Poetry of Displacement
Jamal Mahjoub
Interviews Mehdi Charef
Leila Aboulela
Travel is Part of Faith
Jean Khalfa with Jérôme Game
Pustules, Spirals, Volcanoes: Some Images in Aimé Césaire’s Cahier d’un retour au pays natal
Jean Fisher
Everlyn Nicodemus
Uche Nduka
Poem: Aquacade In Amsterdam
Jamal Mahjoub
The Shallow Road to the Deep North: Migrant Writing in Scandanavia
Susheila Nasta
Obituary: Clarissa Luard
Reviews
Adele King
Koffi Kwahulé’s Plays: Bintou, Il nous faut l’Amérique, La dame du café d’en face, Jaz and Fama
Judith Kazantzis
Sujata Bhatt Augatora
Sandra Ponzanesi
Graziella Parati, ed Mediterranean Crossroads: Migration Literature in Italy
Alec G Hargreaves
Azouz Begag Le Passeport
Juliette Myers
Elaine Savory Jean Rhys
C L Innes
Gayatri C Spivak A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present
Marjorie Attignol Salvodon
Leila Sebbar (Dorothy S Blair, trans) Sherazade
John McLeod
Alex Wheatle Brixton Rock
Eric Sellin
Abdelkader Benali (Susan Massotty, trans) Wedding by the Sea
Sophia Phoca
Hélène Cixous Stigmata: Escaping Texts
Mark Stein
Uche Nduka (Maren Hancke, trans) The Bremen Poems
Alessandra Di Maio
Tahar Ben Jelloun Dove lo Stato non c’e
Sirad S Hassan Sette Gocce di Sangue
Lakshmi Holmström
Susan Bassnett and Harish Trivedi, ed Postcolonial Translation: Theory and Practice
Denise Coussy
Véronique Tadjo Champs de Bataille et d’amour
Pietro Deandrea
Courttia Newland Society Within
Biyi Bandele The Street
Witi Ihimaera and Tabish Khair
A Debate
Editorial: The Long March
Jamal Mahjoub
One in the Garden of Plenty
Sophia Phoca
Interviews Hélène Cixous
Gil Tucker
Sun & Drum Drum and other poems
Sandra Ponzanesi
The Past Holds No Terror? Colonial Memories and of Afro-Italian Narratives
Maria Abbebù Viarengo
Scirscir’n demna
Jamal Mahjoub
Migrant Writing From Europe: A Gallery
Denmark: Munaim Alfaker
Spain: Donato Ndongo, Franciso Zamora Lococh, Justo Bolekiá
Germany: Sujata Bhatt, Parviz Sadighi, Zafer Senocak
Assia Djebar
Extract from Le Blanc d’Algerie
Robert Fraser
The Algerian Poetry of Displacement
Jamal Mahjoub
Interviews Mehdi Charef
Leila Aboulela
Travel is Part of Faith
Jean Khalfa with Jérôme Game
Pustules, Spirals, Volcanoes: Some Images in Aimé Césaire’s Cahier d’un retour au pays natal
Jean Fisher
Everlyn Nicodemus
Uche Nduka
Poem: Aquacade In Amsterdam
Jamal Mahjoub
The Shallow Road to the Deep North: Migrant Writing in Scandanavia
Susheila Nasta
Obituary: Clarissa Luard
Reviews
Adele King
Koffi Kwahulé’s Plays: Bintou, Il nous faut l’Amérique, La dame du café d’en face, Jaz and Fama
Judith Kazantzis
Sujata Bhatt Augatora
Sandra Ponzanesi
Graziella Parati, ed Mediterranean Crossroads: Migration Literature in Italy
Alec G Hargreaves
Azouz Begag Le Passeport
Juliette Myers
Elaine Savory Jean Rhys
C L Innes
Gayatri C Spivak A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present
Marjorie Attignol Salvodon
Leila Sebbar (Dorothy S Blair, trans) Sherazade
John McLeod
Alex Wheatle Brixton Rock
Eric Sellin
Abdelkader Benali (Susan Massotty, trans) Wedding by the Sea
Sophia Phoca
Hélène Cixous Stigmata: Escaping Texts
Mark Stein
Uche Nduka (Maren Hancke, trans) The Bremen Poems
Alessandra Di Maio
Tahar Ben Jelloun Dove lo Stato non c’e
Sirad S Hassan Sette Gocce di Sangue
Lakshmi Holmström
Susan Bassnett and Harish Trivedi, ed Postcolonial Translation: Theory and Practice
Denise Coussy
Véronique Tadjo Champs de Bataille et d’amour
Pietro Deandrea
Courttia Newland Society Within
Biyi Bandele The Street
Witi Ihimaera and Tabish Khair
A Debate
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