Wasafiri 33

Issue 33: Spring 2001

Interviews with Maxine Hong Kingston and Atima Srivastava

Fiction by Charles Mungoshi and Norvid Parsi

Poems by Anthony Kellman, Tabish Khair, E A Markham, Minoli Salgado and Frances Thompson

Art Essay on New Impressions of Africa

Articles on Joyce Gladwell, Dambodzo Marechera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's journalism and twentieth century Caribbean literature in retrospect

Reviews of Mimi Khalvati's Selected Poems, Lorna Goodison's Guinea Woman, Nuruddin Farah's Yesterday, Tomorrow: Voices From the Somali Diaspora, Zadie Smith's White Teeth and Leone Ross's Orange Laughter

 

Mala Pandurang
Interviews Atima Srivastava

Pascale Petit
Motherfather and other poems

Sandra Courtman
Portrait of a West Indian Woman as a Young Writer in England: Joyce Gladwell

Charles Mungoshi
Fiction: Letter To A Friend

David Pattison
Dumbudzo Marechera: A Zimbabwean Writer, or a Writer from Zimbabwe?

Anthony Kellman
Poem: Day of Congregation

Diana Pérez García
Dancing Cumbias in Vienna or the Difference Between an English Tory and Another English Tory: Notes on Gabriel García Márquez’s European Journalism and its Relation to His Fiction

Alain Miller
Art: New Impressions of Africa

Tabish Khair
Poem: Stone

Elizabeth Ingrams
The Lonely Londoners: Sam Selvon and the Literary Heritage

Cynthia James
Twentieth-Century Caribbean Literature in Retrospect

E A Markham
It Gets Worse, other poems and ‘Sara’s Interior’

Maggie Ann Bowers
Interviews Maxine Hong Kingston

Novid Parsi
Fiction: Properties of Departure

Ralph J Crane
Duelling with The Crown: On Language and Literature in Shashi Tharoor’s The Great Indian Novel

Minoli Salgado
Poem: A Walk in the Dark

Frances Thompson
Picasso’s Crying Woman and other poems

Alamgir Hashmi
Poem: Summer is Here

Denise de Caires Narain
Obituary: Amryl Johnson

Alastair Niven
Obituary: Anna Rutherford

Reviews

Judith Kazantzis
Selected Poems
Lorna Goodison Guinea Woman: New and Selected Poems
Karen Press Home

Louis James
E A Markham Marking Time

Bart Moore-Gilbert
Amritjit Singh and Peter Schmidt, ed Postcolonial Theory and the United States: Race, Ethnicity and Literature
Fawzia Afzal-Khan and Kalpana Seshadri-Cooks, ed The Pre-Occupation of Postcolonial Studies

Keith Jardim
Sasenarine Persaud Canada Geese and Apple Chatney: Stories

Ashok Bery
Debjani Chatterjee, ed The Redback Anthology of British South Asian Poetry

Sandra Ponzanesi
Nuruddin Farah Yesterday, Tomorrow: Voices From the Somali Diaspora

Kamila Shamsie
Bruce King Derek Walcott: A Caribbean Life

Rukhsana Ahmad
Black and Asian Plays: An Anthology

Jane Bryce
Zadie Smith White Teeth
Leone Ross Orange Laughter

Patrick Williams
June Givanni, ed Symbolic Narratives/African Cinema: Audience, Theory and the Moving Image

Elaine Savory
Marcia Douglas Electricity Come to Cocoa Bottom
Lakshmi Gill Returning the Empties: Selected Poems 1960s – 1990s

Ali Nobil
Abdullah Hussein Émigré Journeys

Emilia Ippolito
Caryl Phillips The Atlantic Sound

Robert Fraser
Stewart Brown and John Wickham, ed The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories