Wasafiri 35

Issue 35: Spring 2002

Interview with Michael Abbensetts

Poems by Martin Bennett and Khan Singh Kumar (Daljit Nagra)

Fiction by Tessa McWatt, Gerard Ragnauth and Herbert Shore

Art Essay on Yinka Shonibare at the Stephen Friedman Gallery

Articles on Ahdaf Souief and Leila Aboulela and publication in the margins

Reviews of Abdulrazak Gurnah's By the Sea, Shimmer Chinodya's Can We Talk and Other Stories, Radhika Jha's Smell and Ravinder Randhawa's The Coral Strand

Michelle Stoby
Black British Drama After Empire Road: An interview with Michael Abbensetts

Martin Bennett
A West African Quintet and other poems

Vikas Mohan
Burnt by the Sun

Jillian Edelstein
Truth and Lies

Lynda Prescott
'Coming to London' in the 1950s

Gerard Ragnauth
A Settler's Choice

Geoffrey Nash
Re-sitting Religion and Creating Feminised Space in the Fiction of Ahdaf Souief and Leila Aboulela

Khan Singh Kumar
A Settler’s Tale and other poems

Herbert Shore
A Sea That Burst Out Roaring

Roger Moss
'Enn ti-liv:' Publication in the Margins

Sarah Shaw
The Meaning of Death

Anthony Downey
Yinka Shonibare: 'Dorian Gray' at the Stephen Friedman Gallery

Tessa McWatt
Fiction: But the Rose Fell on Azor's Paw

Reviews

Peter Morey
Ralph J Crane and Radhika Mohanram, ed Shifting Continents/Colliding Cultures: Diasporic Writing of the Indian Subcontinent

Bev Braune
Jacqueline Roy The Fat Lady Sings

Anshuman A Mondal
Amit Chaudhuri, ed The Picador Book of Modern Indian Literature

Dianne Schwerdt
Abdulrazak Gurnah By the Sea

Paul Sharrad
Bill Ashcroft Post-colonial Transformations
Susheila Nasta, ed Reading the 'New' Literatures in a Postcolonial Era

Drew Shaw
Shimmer Chinodya Can We Talk and Other Stories

Alex Tickell
Radhika Jha Smell
Ravinder Randhawa The Coral Strand