Wasafiri 9
Stewart Brown on Derek Walcott and Louis James on Jamaica Kincaid. Poetry by Fred D’Aguiar and fiction by Frances Hunter. Abdulrazak Gurnah reviews The Shadow Bride by Roy Heath, Ketaki Kushari Dyson reviews Baumgartner’s Bombay by Anita Desai. Also reviews of Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah and Hopes and Impediments and Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga.
Highlights
Poetry by Fred D'Aguiar
Fiction by Frances Hunder
Articles on Derek Walcott and Jamaica Kincaid
Reviews of Roy Heath's The Shadow Bride, Anita Desai's Baumgartner’s Bombay Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah and Hopes and Impediments and Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions
Contents
Susheila Nasta
Editorial Note
Tim Youngs
Morality and Ideology: The Arranged Marriage in Contemporary British-Asian Drama
Delia Krause
A Grain of Wheat: Ngugi’s Tribute to the Armed Rebellion
Stewart Brown
‘Spoiler’, Walcott’s People’s Patriot
Louis James
Reflections at the Bottom of the River: The Transformation of Caribbean Experience in the fiction of Jamaica Kincaid
Martin Turner
The Poetry of Sohrab Sepehri
C W Watson
Dutch Colonial Literature
Fred D’Aguair
A Great House by the Sea and other poems
Ian McDonald
An Offering of Stones and other poems
Stewart Brown
History, Kensington and other poems
Frances Hunter
Fiction: The Worldview of George De Bruyn: A Story
Reviews
Suvir Kaul
Nayantara Sahgal Mistaken Identity
Ketaki Kushari Dyson
Anita Desai Baumgartner’s Bombay
Mark Kinkead-Weekes
Stephen Clingman, ed Nadine Gordimer: The Essential Gesture
J M Coetzee White Writing
Martin Turner
Chinua Achebe Anthills of The Savannah
Lyn Innes
Chinua Achebe Hopes and Impediments
Abdulrazak Gurnah
Roy Heath The Shadow Bride
Bernard Sharratt
Bart Moore-Gilbert Kipling and ‘Orientalism’
