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Issue 77

Wasafiri 77

Issue 77: Spring 2014



Fiction by Daniel M Jaffe, Revathi Krishnaswamy, A K Kulreshth and Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

Poems by Michelle Cahill, Michael Dunne, Terry Jones and Marvin Thompson

Interviews with Razmik Davoyan, Tan Twan Eng, Tabish Khair and Arminé Tamrazian

Articles on Jackie Kay's Red Dust Road and memoirs of feminist modernities

Art Essay on images in contemporary Pakistani visual art and English-Language Fiction

Winners of the Wasafiri New Writing Prize 2013

Reviews of NoViolet Bulawayo's We Need New Names, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Americanah, Aminatta Forna's The Hired Man, Taiye Selasi's Ghana Must Go and Pei-Chen Liao's 'Post'-9/11 South Asian Diasporic Fiction: Uncanny Terror



 



 


Contents

Stephanie Jones
Editorial

Maya Jaggi
Tan Twan Eng in Conversation

A K Kulshreshth
Fiction: Swapping: A True Singapore Ghost Story

Terry Jones
Poems

Petra Tournay-Theodotou
Some Connection with the Place: Jackie Kay's Red Dust Road

Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Fiction: Borojah's Law

Marvin Thompson
Poem

Geetha Ramanathan
Memoirs of Feminist Modernities

Imtiaz Dharker
Tabish Khair in Conversation

Revathi Krishnaswamy
Fiction: Interior Design

Michael Dunne
Poem

Madeline Clements
Reframing 'Violence', Transforming Impressions: Images in Contemporary Pakistani Visual Art and English-Language Fiction

Najwa Ali
Writing Toward a Distance

Daniel M Jaffe
Fiction: The Rabbetzin

Sarah Hymas
Razmik Davoyan and Arminé Tamrazian in Conversation

Michelle Cahill
Poem

Winners of the Wasafiri New Writing Prize 2013
Gita Ralleigh
Fiction: Back At The Museum
Cliff Chen
Life Writing: Life Exchange
Anita Pati
Poem: A concise Chinese-English dictionary for stealing love

Reviews

Zoe Norridge
NoViolet Bulawayo We Need New Names
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Americanah
Aminatta Forna The Hired Man

Merle Collins
Erne Brodber The World is a High Hill: Stories about Jamaican Women
Ifeona Fulani Ten Days in Jamaica

Harald Leusmann
Taiye Selasi Ghana Must Go
Mia Couto The Tuner of Silences

Abdullah Khan
G Willow Wilson Alif the Unseen
Guy Mannes-Abbott In Ramallah, Running

Michelle Cahill
M T C Cronin The World Last Night
Michael Brennan Autoethnographic

Roger Robinson and Malika Booker
Jacob Sam-La Rose Breaking Silence
Christian Campbell Running the Dusk

Jany P Joseph
Emily Zobel Marshall Anansi's Journey: A Story of Jamaican Cultural Resistance
Cyril Dabydeen, ed Beyond Sangre Grande: Caribbean Writing Today

Bill Schwarz
Neville Dawes Fugue and Other Writings

Silke Stroh
Jana Gohrisch and Ellen Grünkemeier, ed Listening to Africa: Anglophone African Literatures and Cultures
Eldred Durosimi Jones, with assistance from Marjorie Jones The Freetown Bond: A Life under Two Flags

Ruksana Abdul-Majid
E Dawson Varughese Beyond the Postcolonial: World Englishes Literature
Marga Munkelt, Markus Schmitz, Mark Stein and Silke Stroh, ed Postcolonial Translocations: Cultural Representation and Critical Spatial Thinking

Sukhdev Sandhu
Pei-Chen Liao 'Post'-9/11 South Asian Diasporic Fiction: Uncanny Terror

Rebecca Foster
Natasha Soobramanien Genie and Paul
Yasmin Ladha Blue Sunflower Startle
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