Wasafiri 49
Issue 49: Winter 2006
Interviews with Catherin Lim and Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze
Fiction by Erna Brodber, Akin Oladimeji and Juned Subhan
Poems by Jean Arasanayagam, Sampurna Chatterji, Melvin E Lewis and Mani Rao
Essay by Tabish Khair
Art Essay on Ellen Gallagher
Articles on Kylas Chunder Dutt and the beginnings of Indian-English Fiction, and Jayne Cortez and John La Rose,
Reviews of Siddhartha Deb's Surface, Tarun J Tejpal's The Alchemy of Desire and And the World Changed: Contemporary Stories by Pakistani Women edited by Muneeza Shamsie
Contents
Tabish Khair
Death of the Reader
Erna Brodber
Extract from The Rainmaker’s Mistake
Melvin E Lewis
Poem: Dry on Rocks
Alex Tickell
Midnight’s Ancestors: Kyas Chunder Dutt and the Beginnings of Indian-English Fiction
Kylas Chunder Dutt
A Journal of Forty-Eight Hours of the Year 1945
Mohammad A Quayum
Interviews Catherine Lim
Mani Rao
Poems: Haul and Testament
Amna Malik
Art: Ellen Gallagher
Akin Oladimeji
Fiction: The Dream
Richard Dyer
Poem: He Seizes Citadels of Light
Stewart Brown
Interviews Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze
Sampurna Chattarji
Birthplace and other poems
Margaux Poueymirou
Poem: Beside a Pond in Nakano-ku
Juned Subhan
Fiction: Yellow Leaves
Jean Arasanayagam
Poem: Maya, Shakti, Devi, Leela
Kevin Meehan
Brilliant Episodes of Invention: Jayne Cortez in Poetic Dialogue with John La Rose
Margaret Busby
Obituary: John La Rose
Reviews
Jayne Bryce
Oyeronke Oyewumi, ed African Women and Feminism: Reflecting on the Politics of Sisterhood
Simon Lewis White Women Writers and Their African Invention
Jenni Ramone
Daphne Grace The Woman in the Muslin Mask: Veiling and Identity in Postcolonial Literature
Bruce King
Muneeza Shamsie, ed And the World Changed: Contemporary Stories by Pakistani Women
Alison Donnell
Kadija Sesay, ed Write Black, Write British: From Post Colonial to Black British Literature
Mithu C Banerji
Siddhartha Deb Surface
Tarun J Tejpal The Alchemy of Desire
Virginia Richter
Jopi Nyman Postcolonial Animal Tale: From Kipling to Coetzee
Mala Pandurang
Peter Morey Contemporary World Writers: Rohinton Mistry
Death of the Reader
Erna Brodber
Extract from The Rainmaker’s Mistake
Melvin E Lewis
Poem: Dry on Rocks
Alex Tickell
Midnight’s Ancestors: Kyas Chunder Dutt and the Beginnings of Indian-English Fiction
Kylas Chunder Dutt
A Journal of Forty-Eight Hours of the Year 1945
Mohammad A Quayum
Interviews Catherine Lim
Mani Rao
Poems: Haul and Testament
Amna Malik
Art: Ellen Gallagher
Akin Oladimeji
Fiction: The Dream
Richard Dyer
Poem: He Seizes Citadels of Light
Stewart Brown
Interviews Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze
Sampurna Chattarji
Birthplace and other poems
Margaux Poueymirou
Poem: Beside a Pond in Nakano-ku
Juned Subhan
Fiction: Yellow Leaves
Jean Arasanayagam
Poem: Maya, Shakti, Devi, Leela
Kevin Meehan
Brilliant Episodes of Invention: Jayne Cortez in Poetic Dialogue with John La Rose
Margaret Busby
Obituary: John La Rose
Reviews
Jayne Bryce
Oyeronke Oyewumi, ed African Women and Feminism: Reflecting on the Politics of Sisterhood
Simon Lewis White Women Writers and Their African Invention
Jenni Ramone
Daphne Grace The Woman in the Muslin Mask: Veiling and Identity in Postcolonial Literature
Bruce King
Muneeza Shamsie, ed And the World Changed: Contemporary Stories by Pakistani Women
Alison Donnell
Kadija Sesay, ed Write Black, Write British: From Post Colonial to Black British Literature
Mithu C Banerji
Siddhartha Deb Surface
Tarun J Tejpal The Alchemy of Desire
Virginia Richter
Jopi Nyman Postcolonial Animal Tale: From Kipling to Coetzee
Mala Pandurang
Peter Morey Contemporary World Writers: Rohinton Mistry
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