Wasafiri 63
Issue 63: Autumn 2010
Essay by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Interviews with Anita Desai, Kiran Desai and Nabaneeta Dev Sen
Life Writing by Elaine Feinstein
Fiction by Simi Awosika, Moetai Brotherson, Anjum Hassan, Soe Tjen Marching and Sridala Swami
Poems by Laksmisree Banerjee, Iain Britton and Keki Daruwalla
Art Essay on material meaning
Articles on J M Coetzee, and new directions in international writing
Reviews of Grace Nichols's Picasso, I Want My Face Back, Moniza Alvi's Europa, Neel Mukherjee's A Life Apart, Mukoma wa Ngugi's Nairobi Heat and Maaza Mengiste's Beneath the Lion's Gaze
Contents
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Language in Everything to Declare: Celebrating The Pilgrim's Twenty-fifth Birthday
Pavithra Narayanan
Economic Viability of Languages: An Interview with Nabaneeta Dev Sen
Sridala Swami
Fiction: Wordsmith
Keki Daruwalla
Poems
Antje M Rauwerda
Not Your Typical 'Diaspora' or 'Third World Cosmopolitan': Unexpectedly International Writing
Elaine Feinstein
Memoir: Fragments of a remembered life
Rizwan Akhtar
Poems
Maggie Gee
Anita and Kiran Desai in Conversation: Writing Across the Generations
Jessica Hemmings
Material Meaning
Moetai Brotherson
Fiction: Extract from Le Roi absent (translated from the French by Jean Anderson)
Iain Britton
Poems
Soe Tjen Marching
Fiction: The Guardian Angel
Elleke Boehmer
Doubling the Writer: David Attwell on his Textual Dialogue with J M Coetzee
Simi Awosika
Fiction: The Umbrella
Laksmisree Banerjee
Poems
Sara Heitlinger
Privileged Tactics
Anjum Hasan
Fiction: Happiness is a Warm Gun
Reviews
Tabish Khair
Arun Kolatkar The Boatride and Other Poems edited with introduction by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
Namdeo Dhasal Poet of the Underworld: Poems 1972-2006 introduction and translation by Dilip Chitre with photographs by Henning Stegmuller
Arundhathi Subramaniam Where I Live: New and Selected Poems
Joseph Coelho
Grace Nichols Picasso, I Want My Face Back
Moniza Alvi Europa
Tobe Levin
Chantal Zabus Between Rites and Rights: Excision in Women's Experiential Texts and Human Contexts
Ole Birk Laursen
Bart Moore-Gilbert Postcolonial Life-Writing: Culture, Politics and Self-Representation
Philip Holden Autobiography and Decolonization: Modernity, Masculinity, and the Nation-State
Mithu Banerji
Neel Mukherjee A Life Apart
Lizzy Attree
John Eppel Absent: The English Teacher
Marcia Lynx Qualey
Laila Lalami Secret Son
Sara Wajid
Catherine O'Flynn, ed Roads Ahead
Helon Habila
Mukoma wa Ngugi Nairobi Heat
Christine Matzke
Maaza Mengiste Beneath the Lion's Gaze
Language in Everything to Declare: Celebrating The Pilgrim's Twenty-fifth Birthday
Pavithra Narayanan
Economic Viability of Languages: An Interview with Nabaneeta Dev Sen
Sridala Swami
Fiction: Wordsmith
Keki Daruwalla
Poems
Antje M Rauwerda
Not Your Typical 'Diaspora' or 'Third World Cosmopolitan': Unexpectedly International Writing
Elaine Feinstein
Memoir: Fragments of a remembered life
Rizwan Akhtar
Poems
Maggie Gee
Anita and Kiran Desai in Conversation: Writing Across the Generations
Jessica Hemmings
Material Meaning
Moetai Brotherson
Fiction: Extract from Le Roi absent (translated from the French by Jean Anderson)
Iain Britton
Poems
Soe Tjen Marching
Fiction: The Guardian Angel
Elleke Boehmer
Doubling the Writer: David Attwell on his Textual Dialogue with J M Coetzee
Simi Awosika
Fiction: The Umbrella
Laksmisree Banerjee
Poems
Sara Heitlinger
Privileged Tactics
Anjum Hasan
Fiction: Happiness is a Warm Gun
Reviews
Tabish Khair
Arun Kolatkar The Boatride and Other Poems edited with introduction by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
Namdeo Dhasal Poet of the Underworld: Poems 1972-2006 introduction and translation by Dilip Chitre with photographs by Henning Stegmuller
Arundhathi Subramaniam Where I Live: New and Selected Poems
Joseph Coelho
Grace Nichols Picasso, I Want My Face Back
Moniza Alvi Europa
Tobe Levin
Chantal Zabus Between Rites and Rights: Excision in Women's Experiential Texts and Human Contexts
Ole Birk Laursen
Bart Moore-Gilbert Postcolonial Life-Writing: Culture, Politics and Self-Representation
Philip Holden Autobiography and Decolonization: Modernity, Masculinity, and the Nation-State
Mithu Banerji
Neel Mukherjee A Life Apart
Lizzy Attree
John Eppel Absent: The English Teacher
Marcia Lynx Qualey
Laila Lalami Secret Son
Sara Wajid
Catherine O'Flynn, ed Roads Ahead
Helon Habila
Mukoma wa Ngugi Nairobi Heat
Christine Matzke
Maaza Mengiste Beneath the Lion's Gaze
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