Wasafiri 72: Global Youth Cultures
Fiction and Drama by Omar El-Khairy and Sharanya Manivannan
Poems by Joshua, Bennett, Ahmed, Haddad, Meena Kandasamy, Kosal Khiev, Sharanya Manivannan, Avaes Mohammad and Rafeef Ziadah
Interviews with Omar Robert Hamilton, Gautam Malkani and Gabriel Teodros
Art Essay on revolutionary graffiti in Tunisia
Articles on the depiction of Suburban 'Asian London' in popular youth culture, the BNP, Question Time and the structure of fascist rhetoric, Haitian American Youth in Danticat's Behind the Mountains and Breath, Eyes, Memory and blogging the UK: youth of the Middle East visit Britain
Reviews of Mischa Hiller's Shake Off, Selma Dabbagh's Out of It, Hisham Matar's Anatomy of Disappearance, Sasenarine Persaud's Lantana Strangling Ixora, Esi Edugyan's Half Blood Blues and Michael Ondaatje's The Cat's Table
Contents
Editorial
Rupa Haq
Darkness on the Edge of Town: Depictions of Suburban 'Asian London' in Popular Youth Culture
Avaes Mohammad
Poem
Blake Brandes
'Our lives are constructed with symbols': An Interview with Gautam Malkani
Jonathan L Cranfield
Cultures of Aversion: The BNP, Question Time and the Structure of Facist Rhetoric
Jo Collins
Novels of transformation and transplantation: The Postcolonial Bidungsroman and Haitian American Youth in Danticat's Behind the Mountains and Breath, Eyes, Memory
Babita Thannoo
Rap Music in Mauritius: Forging 'Connective Marginalities' and Resistance
Ahmed Haddad
Poems
Walid El Hamamsy
Shooting Under Fire: Filmmaking and the Aesthetics of Resistance: An Interview with Omar Robert Hamilton
Rafeef Ziadah
Poems
Pascale Bou Rached and Leen Khaddour
Blogging the UK: Youth of the Middle East Visit Britain
Kosal Khiev
Poems
Joshua Bennett
Poems
Blake Brandes
'Because we can win, and change is inevitable': An Interview with Gabriel Teodros
Sharanya Manivannan
Fiction: In Asterisks, For Action
Sharanya Manivannan
Poem
Dounia Georgeon
Revolutionary Graffiti: Street art and revolution in Tunisia
Omar El-Khairy
Drama: An Excerpt from Sour Lips
Meena Kandasamy
Poems
Tinashe Mushakavanhu
Anarchies of the Mind: An Imaginary Conversation Bewteen Two Writers
Reviews
Caroline Rooney
Review Essay: World Intifada
Mischa Hiller Shake Off
Selma Dabbagh Out of It
Tendai Huchu
Review Interview: Tenashe Mushakavanhu and David Nettleingham, ed State of the Nation: Contemporary Zimbabwean Poetry
Rita Sakr
Hisham Matar In the Country of Men
Hisham Matar Anatomy of Disappearance
Florian Stadtler
Roshi Fernando Homesick
Nikesh Shukla Coconut Unlimited
Nauman Khalid
H M Naqvi Home Boy
Rashi Rohatgi
Kavita Bhanot, ed Too Asian, Not Asian Enough
Rita Christian and Judith Misrahi-Barak, ed India and the Diasporic Imagination/L'Inde et l'imagination diasporique
Richard Lightman
Anjali Gera Roy Bhangra Moves: From Ludhiana to London and Beyond
Lyn Innes
Kate Adams The Cheering Rain
Jackie Kay and Kachi A Ozumba, ed Crossing the Lines: New Writing by International Students
Lynne Macedo
Sasenarine Persaud Lantana Strangling Ixora
Rachel Bower
Michael Ondaatje The Cat's Table
James Hodapp
Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness: A Graphic Novel adapted by David Zane Mairowitz and illustrated by Catherine Anyango
Trevor R Getz and Liz Clarke Abina and the Important Men: A Graphic History
Emma Cleary
Esi Edugyan Half Blood Blues
