Wasafiri 126: Impossible Returns – The Spain Issue
Edited by Marta Fernández Campa and María del Pilar Kaladeen, Wasafiri 126: Impossible Returns – The Spain Issue is a compilation of work by racialised Spanish writers and artists. The contributions, ranging from short stories, interviews, poems, critical essays and art, feature poignant and powerful pieces that ask questions about national memory, colonial history, nationality, and identity.
The work gathered here reflects these wide-ranging issues from distinct, individual perspectives and reflects the many sides of Spain and its history — underlying the notion of multiple ‘impossible returns'.
Contents
Editorial
(Re)turning to Space and Memory
Marta Fernández Campa and María del Pilar Kaladeen
Articles
For Us, By Us
Layla Benitez-James
Mirarse Negro En España / To See Oneself Black in Spain: Memory, Archive, and Resistance in the Work of Rubén H. Bermúdez
Dantaé Garee Elliott
Life Writing
Yuyay | Memory
Mario Espinoza Pino. Translated from Spanish by Américo Mendoza-Mori
Reptile or Rosebush: Madwoman in the Attic
Noelia Cortés. Translated from Spanish by Julia Conner
El Enigma de Los Abuelos
Alejandro Lámbarry. Translated from Spanish by Rahul Bery
Interviews
A Swirling Wind from the South: A Conversation with Gabriela Wiener
Carolina Meloni. Translated from Spanish by Rosalind Harvey
'In That Shared Space': An Interview with Lucía Asué Mbomío Rubio and Santiago Zannou
Elena Bueriberi. Translated from Spanish by Marta Fernández Campa and María del Pilar Kaladeen
Art
Race, Fantasy, and Anti-Cinema: An Interview with Sol Mussa
Paula Teixeira Molans. Translated from Galician by Paula Teixeira Molans
Fiction
Waiting Room
Safia El Aaddam. Translated from Spanish by Ian Farnes and Layla Benitez-James
Warts
Lola Ortiz Vargas. Translated from Spanish by Jessica Hinds-Mingo
Poetry
Sunnah Being Three; Sunnah Siendo Tres
Salma Bechar. Translated from Spanish by Mónica Fernández Jiménez
dream-of-a-dream.srt; el-sueño-de-un-sueño.srt
Paloma Chen. Translated from Spanish by Julia Conner
Static on Sunday; Interferencias en El Domingo
Karessa Malaya Ramos Aguiñot. Translated from Spanish by Ameerah Arjanee
Review Essay
Texts of Wrecking and Renewal
Anthem of Evaporated Tears – Xavier Valcárcel. Translated by Roque Raquel Salas Rivera
The Conjurer – Pedro Serrano. Translated and edited by Anna Crowe
Chrysalis: Pastoral in B Minor – Susanna Rafart. Translated by Megan Berkobien and María Cristina Hall
Alejandro Beas-Murillo
Reviews
Cervantine Blackness – Nicholas R Jones
Rubén Bracero Salvat
My Clavicle: And Other Massive Misalignments – Marta Sanz. Translated by Katie King
Maddy Robinson
ana c. buena – Valeria Román Marroquín. Translated by Noah Mazer
Lucianna Chixaro Ramos
What We Tried to Bury Grows Here – Julian Zabalbeascoa
What Remains – Brais Lamela. Translated from Galician by Jacob Rogers
Evelyn Aylén Heis
Fables of Development: Capitalism and Social Imaginaries in Spain (1950–1967) – Ana Fernández-Cebrián. Translated by Luis de Juan Hatchard
Elizabeth Blakemore
I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness – Irene Solà. Translated from Catalan by Mara Faye Lethem
Carnaval Fever – Yuliana Ortiz Ruano. Translated from Spanish (Ecuador) by Madeleine Arenivar
Victor Meadowcroft
Far – Rosa Ribas. Translated by Charlotte Coombe
Beth Hickling-Moore
