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Wasafiri 50: Queer Postcolonial Special Issue
Issue 50: Spring 2007
Interviews with Saleem Kidwai, Dorothea Smartt, Valerie Mason-John and Ruth Vanita
Poems by Christopher Barnes, Jackie Kay, Saradha Soobrayen and d’bi young
Fiction by Maureen Duffy and Suniti Namjoshi
Articles on Zionism, queer diasporas and Albert Memmi and a queer reading of Wole Soyinka’s The Road
Reviews of Shyam Selvadurai's Swimming in the Monsoon Sea, Andrew Lesk's Unspeakable Love: Gay and Lesbian Life in the Middle East, Upamanya Chatterjee's Weight Loss and Because I Have a Voice: Queer Politics in India edited by Arvind Narrain and Gautam Bhan
Contents
Sara Salih
Editorial
Jarrod Hayes
Circumcising Zionism, Queering Diaspora: Reviving Albert Memmi’s Penis
Saradha Soobrayen
Poems
Maggie Gee
‘Bringing the Head and the Body Together’: Valerie Mason-John and Dorothea Smartt in conversation
Suniti Namjoshi
Fables
Maureen Duffy
An Extract: Illuminations
Christopher Barnes
Poems
Caroline Smith
Hide and Seek with Rebels: Tracing Contemporary Queer Art in Cracks and Rips
Keguro Macharia
Miri ya Mikongoe
Ian Iqbal Rashid
Poem
Gautam Bhan
Ruth Vanita and Saleem Kidwai in conversation
Jackie Kay
Poem
Gillian Hanscombe
Blue Women
Chris Dunton
‘If You Like Professor, I Will Come Home With You’: Advocating a Queer Reading of Wole Soyinka’s The Road
d’bi young
Poems
Luke Reid
Poem
Linton Kwesi Johnson
Obituary: Louise Bennett, Voice of a People
Reviews
Denise deCaires Narain
Elleke Boehmer Stories of Women: Gender and Narrative in the Postcolonial Nation
Kanika Batra
Arvind Narrain and Gautam Bhan, ed Because I Have a Voice: Queer Politics in India
Andrew Lesk
Shyam Selvadurai Swimming in the Monsoon Sea
Story-Wallah: Short Fiction from South Asian Writers
Drew Shaw
Brian Whitaker Unspeakable Love: Gay and Lesbian Life in the Middle East
Bruce King
Upamanya Chatterjee Weight Loss
Sabine Broeck
Pia Thielmann Hotbeds: Black-White Love in Novels from the United States, Africa and the Caribbean
Francoise Ugochukwu Iniobong I Uko Gender and Identity in the Works of Osonye Tess Onwueme
Annie Paul
Anne Walmsley Art of the Caribbean: Selection of Postcards and Texts
Bill Schwarz
Sarah White et al, ed A Meeting of Continents: The International Book Fair of Radical black and Third World Books
Leila Kamali
Nicole Moore, ed Brown Eyes: A Selection of Creative Expression by Black and Mixed Race Women
Susanne Muhleisen
LKJ Live in Paris with the Dennis Bovell Dub Band, CD
Editorial
Jarrod Hayes
Circumcising Zionism, Queering Diaspora: Reviving Albert Memmi’s Penis
Saradha Soobrayen
Poems
Maggie Gee
‘Bringing the Head and the Body Together’: Valerie Mason-John and Dorothea Smartt in conversation
Suniti Namjoshi
Fables
Maureen Duffy
An Extract: Illuminations
Christopher Barnes
Poems
Caroline Smith
Hide and Seek with Rebels: Tracing Contemporary Queer Art in Cracks and Rips
Keguro Macharia
Miri ya Mikongoe
Ian Iqbal Rashid
Poem
Gautam Bhan
Ruth Vanita and Saleem Kidwai in conversation
Jackie Kay
Poem
Gillian Hanscombe
Blue Women
Chris Dunton
‘If You Like Professor, I Will Come Home With You’: Advocating a Queer Reading of Wole Soyinka’s The Road
d’bi young
Poems
Luke Reid
Poem
Linton Kwesi Johnson
Obituary: Louise Bennett, Voice of a People
Reviews
Denise deCaires Narain
Elleke Boehmer Stories of Women: Gender and Narrative in the Postcolonial Nation
Kanika Batra
Arvind Narrain and Gautam Bhan, ed Because I Have a Voice: Queer Politics in India
Andrew Lesk
Shyam Selvadurai Swimming in the Monsoon Sea
Story-Wallah: Short Fiction from South Asian Writers
Drew Shaw
Brian Whitaker Unspeakable Love: Gay and Lesbian Life in the Middle East
Bruce King
Upamanya Chatterjee Weight Loss
Sabine Broeck
Pia Thielmann Hotbeds: Black-White Love in Novels from the United States, Africa and the Caribbean
Francoise Ugochukwu Iniobong I Uko Gender and Identity in the Works of Osonye Tess Onwueme
Annie Paul
Anne Walmsley Art of the Caribbean: Selection of Postcards and Texts
Bill Schwarz
Sarah White et al, ed A Meeting of Continents: The International Book Fair of Radical black and Third World Books
Leila Kamali
Nicole Moore, ed Brown Eyes: A Selection of Creative Expression by Black and Mixed Race Women
Susanne Muhleisen
LKJ Live in Paris with the Dennis Bovell Dub Band, CD
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