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Issue 99, Autumn 2019

Wasafiri 99

Editorial by Susheila Nasta

Interviews with Minoli Salgado, George Szirtes, Katja Petrowskaja

Articles 'Of Braids, Blades and the Djinns of Winters Past: Fighting the Ghosts of Kashmir', 'A Transnational History of a Writer in Four Packages: From Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s Literary Archive', 'Dancing in Chains: Bijan Elahi on the Art of Translation'

Art 'Harlem and Abroad: Notes to an International ‘Renaissance’

Fiction by Deirdre Shanahan, Roy Udeh-Ubaka, Michael McGuire

Poetry by Danie Shokoohi, Tanaka Mhishi, Jacqueline Kolosov

Reviews Hannah Sullivan Three Poems; Sujatha Gidla Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India; Tabish Khair Night of Happiness; Yu Miri Tokyo Ueno Station; Olabode Ibironke Remapping African Literature;

and more…


Contents

Editorial

Amrita Sharma and Peerzada Raouf Of Braids, Blades and the Djinns of Winters Past: Fighting the Ghosts of Kashmir

Danie Shokoohi                     Poem: In the Garden Where the Gorgons Live

Danyela Demir                      Melancholia of the Privileged: White Trauma, Refused Identification, and Signs of Mourning in Sarah Penny’s The Beneficiaries

Roy Udeh-Ubaka                   Fiction: After the World Broke

Azad Ashim Sharma              ‘When Words Become Dangerous’

In Conversation with Minoli Salgado

Gopika Jadeja             On Looking at a Bronze of Shiva and Parvati in Union; or What Parvati Does Not Say

Pauline McGonagle               A Transnational History of a Writer in Four Packages: From Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s Literary Archive

Deirdre Shanahan                Fiction: Plunder

Joshua I Cohen                      Harlem and Abroad: Notes to an International ‘Renaissance’

Caryl Phillips                         Reflections on Sam Selvon: The Housing Lark

Samuel Selvon                       Fiction: A West Indian Picnic at Hamdon Court

Michael McGuire                   Fiction: El Volcán

Antony Huen             Photographs, Photography and the Photographer: A Conversation with George Szirtes

Rebecca Gould and Kayvan Tahmasebian Dancing in Chains: Bijan Elahi on the Art of Translation

Tanaka Mhishi     Poems: How the Fishing Eagle Died (and What it Said Before); A Sad Boy Learns to Smile

Maya Caspari                         An Interview with Katja Petrowskaja

Len Lukowski                         Diary of a Teenage Boy

Jacqueline Kolosov                Poems: Chirality; Father

Rebecca Foster                      Review Essay: Nii Ayikwei Parkes, ed. Filigree: Contemporary Black British Poetry Tishani Doshi Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods Forrest Gander, ed. Alice Iris Red Horse: Selected Poems of Yoshimasu Gozo: A Book in and on Translation

Carol Leon                  Kagiso Lesego Molope This Book Betrays My Brother

Giulia Mascoli             Caryl Phillips A View of the Empire at Sunset Anthony Joseph Kitch

Sarala Estruch                       Hannah Sullivan Three Poems

Amber Louise Lascelles                    Jacqueline Crooks The Ice Migration

Lorna Goodison Redemption Ground: Essays and Adventures

 Patricia Duffaud                    Azita Ghahreman Negative of a Group Photograph
 

Adil Bhat                    Sujatha Gidla Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India

Grant Hamilton                      Tim Mehigan and Christian Moser, eds.

The Intellectual Landscape in the Works of J. M. Coetzee

Fathima M                  Tabish Khair Night of Happiness

Katie Da Cunha Lewin                      Yu Miri Tokyo Ueno Station

Kate Wallis                 Olabode Ibironke Remapping African Literature

Chris Dunton             Fred Khumalo Dancing the Death Drill

Idris Hamza Yana                  Victoria Ellen Smith, ed. Voices of Ghana: Literary Contributions to the Ghana Broadcasting System, 1955-57

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