Wasafiri 123
Inside Wasafiri 123, you'll find interviews with Andre Bagoo and Christina Sharpe, a lead feature poem by Devika Rege, our 2024 Essay Prize winning articles, and much more. The issue also includes a special section – Tibet: In Focus – showcasing creative-critical commentary by a range of contemporary writers, translators, and artists.
Editorial Red Matter, White Page
Lead Feature Hematology
Articles ‘Avert the Icy Feeling’: Bhanu Kapil and Performing the Life of a Poet in White Spaces; A Qissa of Resistance: Desire and Dissent in Selma Dabbagh’s Short Fiction; Narrating Muslims in Post-9/11 America: On Ayad Akhtar’s Homeland Elegies
Interviews Andre Bagoo, Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, Tenzin Dickie, and Tsering Yangzom Lama, Cato Pedder, Christina Sharpe
Art Biography of a Thought by Tenzing Rigdol
Fiction Shastri Akella, Barsa Ray, Franklyn Usouwa
Poetry Tomi Adegbayibi, Rupam Baoni, Jake Dennis, Erica Hesketh, Jayant Kashyap, Sean Wai Keung, Chime Lama, G. Kanimozhi, Thamizhachi Thangapandian, and Malathi Maithri, trans. Thila Varghese
Life Writing Khairani Barokka, Tsering Woeser, trans. Dechen Pemba
Review Essay The Impossibility of Narrating Violence
Reviews The Seers, Sulaiman Addonia; One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, Omar El Akkad; Heart Lamp: Selected Stories, Banu Mushtaq, trans. Deepa Bhasthi; Forest of Noise, Mosab Abu Toha
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Contents
Editorial
Red Matter, White Page
Sana Goyal
Lead Feature
Hematology
Devika Rege
Articles
A Qissa of Resistance: Desire and Dissent in Selma Dabbagh’s Short Fiction
Simar Bhasin
‘Avert the Icy Feeling’: Bhanu Kapil and Performing the Life of a Poet in White Spaces
Ashley Barr
Narrating Muslims in Post-9/11 America: On Ayad Akhtar’s Homeland Elegies
Sk Sagir Ali
Life Writing
Why I Write in Chinese
Tsering Woeser. Translated from the Chinese by Dechen Pemba
On (Mis)Translation and the Vein of Resistance
Khairani Barokka
Interviews
Journey to the Heart of Whiteness: An Interview with Cato Pedder
Emma Parker
Reflections from the Margins: A Conversation with Tibetan Writers in Exile
Thinley Chodon, Tenzin Dickie, Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, and Tsering Yangzom Lama
The Gift of Imaginative Rupture: Christina Sharpe In Conversation
Guy Gunaratne
A Voice That is Inherently Queer: A Conversation with Andre Bagoo
Jarula M I Wegner
Art
Tenzing Rigdol's Biography of a Thought: A Mandala in the Heart of the MET
Sarah Magnatta
Fiction
The Misidentification of Bobo
Franklyn Usouwa
Goddess
Barsa Ray
Hail the Vande Mataram!
Shastri Akella
Poetry
Bird, at the End; Eve
Jayant Kashyap
The Tiniest Tear in the Large Intestine
Erica Hesketh
Rough Draft; When Mommy Zones Out; Dishes
Chime Lama
Sheyifumni
Tomi Adegbayibi
my language was my mother
Rupam Baoni
No Traces in the Path of a Bird; A Mermaid's Tear; A Raging Taste
G Kanimozhi; Malathi Maithri; Thamizhachi Thangapandian. All poems translated from the Tamil by Thila Varghese
be like 水
Sean Wai Keung
The Messenger
Jake Dennis
Review Essay
The Impossibility of Narrating Violence
People from Oetimu – Felix Nesi. Translated by Lara Norgaard
We Do Not Part – Han Kang. Translated by e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris
Delicious Hunger – Hai Fan. Translated by Jeremy Tiang
Munib Khan
Reviews
Forest of Noise – Mosab Abu Toha
rock flight – Hasib Hourani
Omnia Amin
Gender, Sexuality and Feminism in Pakistani Urdu Writing – Amina Yaqin
Hina Baloch
Heart Lamp: Selected Stories – Banu Mushtaq. Translated by Deepa Bhasthi
Zara Chowdhary
The World After Gaza – Pankaj Mishra
Somak Ghoshal
The Seers – Sulaiman Addonia
Self-Portrait with Family – Amaan Hyder
Sabah Choudrey
Ceremony for the Nameless – Theresa Lola
Monster – Dzifa Benson
Kym Deyn
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This – Omar El Akkad
Helle Marie Vatne
