
Wasafiri 52: The Book in the World
Issue 52: Autumn 2007
The Book in the World
Interviews with Ntone Edjabe and Ritu Menon
Fiction by Merryn Glover and Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Poems by Lizzy Dijeh and Sridala Swami
Essay by Marina Warner
Column: ‘Books That Made Me’ by Margaret Busby, Michael Horovitz, Blake Morrison, Beverley Naidoo, Alexandra Pringle, Boyd Tonkin and others
Art Essay on John Latham, books, postmodernity and censorship
Articles on banned books, apartheid and censorship and South Indian literature and global publishing
Reviews of Anindita Ghosh's Power in Print: Popular Publishing and the Politics of Language and Culture in a Colonial Society and Rimi B Chatterjee's Empires of the Mind: A History of the Oxford University Press in India Under the Raj
Contents
Susheila Nasta and Robert Fraser
Editorial
Marina Warner
The Word Unfleshed: Memory in Cyberspace
Sridala Swani
Poems
Robert Fraser
‘Half the World is not so Narrow’: Ritu Menon in Conversation
Stacy Engman
Books, Postmodernity and Censorship: The Artwork of John Latham (1921 – 2006)
Merryn Glover
Fiction: Kumari
Sarah Brouillette
South Asian Literature and Global Publishing
Books That Made Me
Ellah Wakatama Allfrey
Biyi Bandele
Margaret Busby
David Dabydeen
Romesh Gunesekera
Abdulrazak Gurnah
Michael Horovitz
E A Markham
Blake Morrison
Daljit Nagra
Beverley Naidoo
Alexandra Pringle
William Radice
Nayantara Sahgal
Boyd Tonkin
Letitia Adu-Ampoma
What’s it all about?
Lizzy Dijeh
Poems
Andrew van der Vlies
Reading Banned Books: Apartheid Censors and Anti-Apartheid Aesthetics
Robert Fraser
‘Who No Know Go Know’: Ntone Edjabe in conversation
Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Fiction: Cemetery Of Life
Reviews
Becky Ayebia Clarke
The Caine Prize for African Writing 2007: A Publisher’s Response
Sissy Helff
Rimi B Chatterjee Empires of the Mind: A History of Oxford University Press in India Under the Raj
Sarah Brouillette
Isabel Hofmeyr The Portable Bunyan: A Transnational History of The Pilgrim's Progress
Shafquat Towheed
Anindita Ghosh Power in Print: Popular Publishing and the Politics of Language and Culture in a Colonial Society
Tobias Robert Klein
Wendy Griswold Bearing Witness: The Novel in Nigeria
Maeve Tynan
Prem Poddar and David Johnson, ed The Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures in English
Jonathan Morley
Charles W Pollard New World Modernisms: TS Eliot, Derek Walcott, and Kamau Brathwaite
Byron Caminero-Santangelo African Fiction and Joseph Conrad
Ian Munro
Zakaria Lahlou The Opposite Program
Carleton S Coon Moroccan Short Stories and The Riffian
Karen McCarthy
Ama Ata Aidoo, ed African Love Stories: An Anthology
Editorial
Marina Warner
The Word Unfleshed: Memory in Cyberspace
Sridala Swani
Poems
Robert Fraser
‘Half the World is not so Narrow’: Ritu Menon in Conversation
Stacy Engman
Books, Postmodernity and Censorship: The Artwork of John Latham (1921 – 2006)
Merryn Glover
Fiction: Kumari
Sarah Brouillette
South Asian Literature and Global Publishing
Books That Made Me
Ellah Wakatama Allfrey
Biyi Bandele
Margaret Busby
David Dabydeen
Romesh Gunesekera
Abdulrazak Gurnah
Michael Horovitz
E A Markham
Blake Morrison
Daljit Nagra
Beverley Naidoo
Alexandra Pringle
William Radice
Nayantara Sahgal
Boyd Tonkin
Letitia Adu-Ampoma
What’s it all about?
Lizzy Dijeh
Poems
Andrew van der Vlies
Reading Banned Books: Apartheid Censors and Anti-Apartheid Aesthetics
Robert Fraser
‘Who No Know Go Know’: Ntone Edjabe in conversation
Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Fiction: Cemetery Of Life
Reviews
Becky Ayebia Clarke
The Caine Prize for African Writing 2007: A Publisher’s Response
Sissy Helff
Rimi B Chatterjee Empires of the Mind: A History of Oxford University Press in India Under the Raj
Sarah Brouillette
Isabel Hofmeyr The Portable Bunyan: A Transnational History of The Pilgrim's Progress
Shafquat Towheed
Anindita Ghosh Power in Print: Popular Publishing and the Politics of Language and Culture in a Colonial Society
Tobias Robert Klein
Wendy Griswold Bearing Witness: The Novel in Nigeria
Maeve Tynan
Prem Poddar and David Johnson, ed The Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures in English
Jonathan Morley
Charles W Pollard New World Modernisms: TS Eliot, Derek Walcott, and Kamau Brathwaite
Byron Caminero-Santangelo African Fiction and Joseph Conrad
Ian Munro
Zakaria Lahlou The Opposite Program
Carleton S Coon Moroccan Short Stories and The Riffian
Karen McCarthy
Ama Ata Aidoo, ed African Love Stories: An Anthology
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