Wasafiri 8: Women’s Issue
Merle Collins on ‘The Writer in Residence’. Interviews with Paule Marshall and Grace Nichols. Short fiction by Lois-Andrea Fergusson and an extract from The Last English Plantation by Jan Shinebourne. Poetry by Jean Arasanayagam, Mahadai Das, Velma Pollard and Katherine Gallagher. Alison Archer reviews Toni Morrison’s Beloved.
Highlights
Essay by Merle Collins
Fiction by Lois-Andrea Fergusson and Jan Shinebourne
Interviews with Paule Marshall and Grace Nichols
Poetry by Jean Arasanayagam, Mahadai Das, Velma Pollard and Katherine Gallagher
Reviews Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Olive Senior's Summer Lightening and Other Stories and Ravinder Randhawa's A Wicked Old Woman
Contents
Susheila Nasta and Christine Archer
Editorial Note
Kathleen McLuskie and Lyn Innes
Women and African Literature
Merle Collins
The Writer in Residence
Keith Thomas
A Shared Teaching Experience with Merle Collins
Muriel Lynn Rubin
Adolescence and Autobiographical Fiction: Teaching Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
Sandi Russell
Interviews Paule Marshall
Maggie Butcher
Interviews Grace Nichols
Jan Shinebourne
Extract from The Last English Plantation
Lois-Andrea Ferguson
Fiction: Pops
Mahadai Das
Poems: Bones and Secrets
Katherine Gallagher
Poems: Meeting Bessie Head in Adelaide, March, 1984 and Political Prisoners
Jean Arasanayagam
Puberty Rites and other poems
Mahadai Das
Poem: The Growing Tip
Velma Pollard
Crown Point and other poems
Reviews
Liz Gerschel
Olive Senior Summer Lightning and Other Stories
Lyn Innes
Ravinder Randhawa A Wicked Old Woman
Marion Molteno A Language in Common
Denise deCaires Narain
Lauretta Ngcobo, ed Let It Be Told
Rhonda Cobham and Merle Collins, ed Watchers and Seeker
Phyllis Pollard
Carole Boyce Davies and Anne Adams Graves, ed Studies of Women in African Literature
Eldred Jones, Eustace Palmer and Majorie Jones, ed Writers in African Literature Today
Alison Archer
Toni Morrison Beloved
