Wasafiri 85
Issue 85: Spring 2016
Fiction by Dike Chukwumerije, Janet Olearski and Janice Soderling
Poems by Richard Georges, Brian Lockett, Nancy Anne Miller, Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih and Andrew Pidoux
Interviews with Mervyn Morris and Zanele Muholi
Essays by Romesh Gunesekera and Wanjiku wa Ngugi
Articles on academic knowledge and not knowing and on Patrick Chamoiseau’s Une Enfance créole
Art Essay on Gerry Judah: Prescient Landscapes and Fragile Architectures
Winners of the Wasafiri New Writing Prize 2015
Reviews of Alain Mabanckou's The Lights of Pointe Noir, Karen McCarthy Woolf's An Aviary of Small Birds, Patience Agbabi's Telling Tales, Kei Miller's The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion, Sasenarine Persaud's Love in a Time of Technology, Mongane Wally Serote's Rumours, Manav Ratti's The Postsecular Imagination and Desiree Reynolds's Seduce
Contents
Editorial
Dike Chukwumerije
Fiction: Time
Romesh Gunesekera
The Art of the Short Story: A Risky Business
Wanjiku wa Ngugi
Doves and Cowboys: Daughter of a Writer in Exile
Brenda Cooper
‘Eight chickens’ … ‘and then there was this goat’ Academic Knowledge and Not knowing
Janice Soderling
Fiction: Sleep
Íde Corley
An Interview with Zanele Muholi
Nancy Anne Miller
Poems
Hadani Ditmas
Gerry Judah: Prescient Landscapes and Fragile Architectures
Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih
Poems
Janet Olearski
Fiction: Rainshine
Rupert Arrowsmith
Poem
Claire Westall
An Interview with Mervyn Morris
Sara-Louise Cooper
Writing Selves, Written Selves: Spiralling Paths from Past to Present in Patrick Chamoiseau’s Une Enfance creole
Richard Georges
Poems
Brian Lockett
Poem
Andrew Pidoux
Poems
The Winners of the Wasafiri New Writing Prize 2015
Amaal Said
Poem
Uschi Gatward
Fiction
Louise Kennedy
Life Writing
Reviews
Zoe Norridge
A Igoni Barrett Blackass
Elleke Boehmer Shouting in the Dark
Alain Mabanckou The Lights of Pointe Noir
K Brisley Brennan
Karen McCarthy Woolf An Aviary of Small Birds
Phyllis Shand Allfrey Love for an Island: The Collected Poems of Phyllis Shand Allfrey
Sohini Basak
Patience Agbabi Telling Tales
Kei Miller The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion
Geoffrey Heptonstall
Arundhathi Subramaniam When God is a Traveller
Sasenarine Persaud Love in a Time of Technology
Moira Richards
Marilyn Hacker and Deema K Shehabi Diasp/Renga
Togara Muzanenhamo Gumiguru
Suvasree Karanjai
Novuyo Rosa Tshuma Shadows
Mongane Wally Serote Rumours
Aatreyee Ghosh
Desiree Reynolds Seduce
Catherine McNamara Pelt and Other Stories
Aditya Misra
Hedy Habra Flying Carpets
Sait Faik Abasiyanik A Useless Man: Selected Stories
Dinesh Kafle
Manav Ratti The Postsecular Imagination
Aurogeeta Das
Om Prakash Dwivedi and Lisa Lau, ed Indian Writing in English and the Global Literary Market
Tamim Sadikali
Blanka Grzegorczyk Discourses of Postcolonialism in Contemporary British Children’s Literature
Michael Perfect Contemporary Fictions of Multiculturalism
Rashi Rohatgi
Isidore Okpewho Blood on the Tides: The Ozidi Saga and Oral Epic Narratology
Xavier Garnier The Swahili Novel: Challenging the Idea of a ‘Minor Literature’
