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Wasafiri 36
Issue 36: Summer 2002
Interview with Maggie Gee
Fiction by Aosaf Afzal and E A Markham
Poems by Norvid Parsi and Erica Warburton
Art Essay on Mohini Chandra
Articles on Black British urban fiction and a Black British Canon and Beryl Gilroy
Review of Caryl Phillips's A New World Order: Selected Essays, Alex Wheatle's East of Acre Lane, Jackie Kay's Why Don’t You Stop Talking, V S Naipaul's Half A Life and Hanif Kureishi's Gabriel’s Gift
Contents
Susheila Nasta
Editorial
Maya Jaggi
Interviews Maggie Gee
Andy Wood
Contemporary Black British Urban Fiction: A 'Ghetto Perspective'?
Novid Parsi
Poem: Anthem
Andrew Smith
Poem: Handover
E A Markham
Fiction: Two Sketches from a ‘50s Notebook
Aamer Hussein
Living in London: A Memoir
Swapna Tamhane
Art Essay: Mohini Chandra
Aosaf Afzal
Fiction: Coils of Rope, Stacked Bushels of Wheat
Charlotte Williams
Extract: Sugar and Slate
Sandra Courtman
A Black British Canon?: The Uses of Beryl Gilroy’s Black Teacher and its Recovery as Literature
John McLeod
'Some Problems with "British" in a "Black British Canon"'
Erica Warburton
Burning – ghat and other poems
Reviews
Mike Phillips
James Procter, ed riting Black Britain 1948-1998: An Interdisciplinary Anthology A New World Order: Selected Essays by Caryl Phillips
Alex Wheatle East of Acre Lane
Lauri Ramey
Leone Ross and Yvonne Brissett, ed hispers in the Walls: New Black and Asian Voices from Birmingham
Ranjana Sidhanta Ash
Safuran Ara and Debjani Chatterjee, ed My Birth Was Not In Vain: Selected Poems by Seven Bengali Women
Tabish Khair
Susheila Nasta Home Truths: Fictions of the South Asian Diaspora in Britain
Harold Leusmann
V S Naipaul Half a Life
John McLeod
Stuart Ward, ed British Culture and the End of Empire
Alison Donnell, ed Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture
Anita Money
Cauvery Madhavan Paddy Indian
Bart Moore-Gilbert Hanif Kureishi
Gabriel Gbadamosi
Robert Fraser The Chameleon Poet: A Life of George Barker
Editorial
Maya Jaggi
Interviews Maggie Gee
Andy Wood
Contemporary Black British Urban Fiction: A 'Ghetto Perspective'?
Novid Parsi
Poem: Anthem
Andrew Smith
Poem: Handover
E A Markham
Fiction: Two Sketches from a ‘50s Notebook
Aamer Hussein
Living in London: A Memoir
Swapna Tamhane
Art Essay: Mohini Chandra
Aosaf Afzal
Fiction: Coils of Rope, Stacked Bushels of Wheat
Charlotte Williams
Extract: Sugar and Slate
Sandra Courtman
A Black British Canon?: The Uses of Beryl Gilroy’s Black Teacher and its Recovery as Literature
John McLeod
'Some Problems with "British" in a "Black British Canon"'
Erica Warburton
Burning – ghat and other poems
Reviews
Mike Phillips
James Procter, ed riting Black Britain 1948-1998: An Interdisciplinary Anthology A New World Order: Selected Essays by Caryl Phillips
Alex Wheatle East of Acre Lane
Lauri Ramey
Leone Ross and Yvonne Brissett, ed hispers in the Walls: New Black and Asian Voices from Birmingham
Ranjana Sidhanta Ash
Safuran Ara and Debjani Chatterjee, ed My Birth Was Not In Vain: Selected Poems by Seven Bengali Women
Tabish Khair
Susheila Nasta Home Truths: Fictions of the South Asian Diaspora in Britain
Harold Leusmann
V S Naipaul Half a Life
John McLeod
Stuart Ward, ed British Culture and the End of Empire
Alison Donnell, ed Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture
Anita Money
Cauvery Madhavan Paddy Indian
Bart Moore-Gilbert Hanif Kureishi
Gabriel Gbadamosi
Robert Fraser The Chameleon Poet: A Life of George Barker
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