Wasafiri 48: Life Writing Special

Issue 48: Summer 2006

Interview with Jamaica Kincaid, Hanif Kureishi and Blake Morrison

Life Writing by Leena Dinghra. Aamer Hussein and Caryl Phillips

Poems by Christian Campbell, Maggie Harris and Jackie Kay

Fiction by Chiji Akoma and Jane Bryce

Art Essay on international contemporary artists and their parents

Articles on Olaudah Equiano, Edward Said and autobiography and Western biography and colonial discourse

Reviews of Lisa Fugard's Skinner’s Drift, Kamau Brathwaite's Born to Slow Horses, Hanif Kureishi's My Ear at his Heart: Reading my Father, Vikram Seth's Two Lives and Manthia Diawara We Won’t Budge

 

Susheila Nasta
Editorial

Caryl Phillips
Life Writing: Necessary Journeys

Aamer Hussein
Life Writing: Nine Postcards from Sanlucar de Barrameda

Bart Moore-Gilbert
Western Autobiography and Colonial Discourse: An Overview

Maggie Harris
Aunt Tita and other poems

Susheila Nasta
Interviews Hanif Kureishi and Blake Morrison

Jackie Kay
What Ever and poems

Zoë Gray
Art: Father Land, Mother Tongue: International Contemporary Artists and Their Parents

Anthony Carrigan
Negotiating Personal Identity and Cultural Memory in Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative

Chiji Akoma
Ink

Marina Warner
Interviews Jamaica Kincaid

Anne Collett
Boots and Bare-Feet in Jamaica Kincaid’s Garden (Book)

Leena Dhingra
Life Writing: Simla

Tobias Döring
Edward Said and the Fiction of Autobiography

Jane Bryce
Fiction: The Walking Dream

Christian Campbell
Poems: A Federation of Wings and Oxfraud

Reviews

Lucy Wilson
Mary Lou Emery, ed Jean Rhys: Journal of Caribbean Literature 3.3
Anne B Simpson Territories of the Psyche: The Fiction of Jean Rhys
Erica J Johnson Home, Maison, Casa: The Politics of Location in Works by Jean Rhys, Marguerite Duras and Erminia Dell’Oro
Victoria Burrows Whiteness and Trauma: The Mother-Daughter Knot in the Fiction of Jean Rhys, Jamaica Kincaid and Toni Morrison

Dennis Walder
Lisa Fugard Skinner’s Drift

Elaine Savory
Kamau Brathwaite Born to Slow Horses

Jan Lowe
Mark McWatt Shinebourne Suspended Sentences

Frederick Luis Aldama
Hanif Kureishi My Ear At His Heart: Reading My Father

Dieter Riemenschneider
Vikram Seth Two Lives

Tracey L Walters
Manthia Diawara We Won’t Budge

Daniel Stein
Vincent Carretta Equiano, the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man