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Issue 107, Autumn 2021

Wasafiri 107: Crisis/Recovery


Contents

Editorial

In the Wake of the Wake of the Wake
Malachi McIntosh

Articles

J M Coetzee and African Studies
David Attwell 

Maximum Space Around the Typewriter: Yvonne Vera and the Craft of Writing
Jessica Hemmings 

Of Women's Bonds: Female Friendship and Feminist Ethics of Care in Tabish Khair's Just Another Jihadi Jane
Indrani Karmakar

Life Writing

'What Have I Done?' and Other Illusions of Control
Jessica Gaitán Johannesson

정 
SJ Kim

Interviews

Doing the Work, with Paul Mendez and Niven Govinden
Octavia Bright

Acts of Faith and Frightening Fictions: An Interview with Ivan Vladislavić
Sisonke Msimang

The Syntax of Everyday Injustice: A Conversation with Arundhati Roy
Pavan Kumar Malreddy

Art

Reading the Past and Present, Painting the Sea and Sky
Kabe Wilson

What the Centre Cannot Hold: Pandemic Vicissitudes and Contemporary Art in Singapore
Adele Tan

Fiction

Zohira
Michelle Hamadache

Breakfast at the Windsor Miramar
Karina Lickorish Quinn

Poetry

My Brother Quit Drinking Maybe Five Times
Cecilia Knapp

Two Poems: 'I Will Begin' and 'Spices, Ink, and Paper'
Shakespeare Okuni

Knock on Wood
Celia A Sorhaindo

Relapse Dream Ending With My Grandmother's Hands
Hala Alyan

Review Essay

'Writing Watersheds': Climate, Prejudice, and Paranoia
Gigantic Cinema: A Weather Anthology – Alice Oswald and Paul Keegan, eds.
Red Pill – Hari Kunzru
Should We Fall Behind – Sharon Duggal
Dzifa Benson

Hashim and Family – Shahnaz Ahsan
Suparna Banerjee

Women Dreaming – Salma, trans. by Meena Kandasamy
Priyanka Hutschenreiter 

The Orchid Folios – Mok Zining
Yue Wang 

Igifu – Scholastique Mukasonga, trans. by Jordan Stump
Anna Giulia Novero

Tazmamart – Aziz BineBine, trans. by Lulu Norman
Lives Lost: In Search of a New tomorrow – Saeed Yousef, foreword by Shahrzad Mojab, trans. by Ahad Bahadori, illustrated by Ava Raha
David Rudd-Mitchell

Postcolonial Disaster: Narrating Catastrophe in the Twenty-First Century – Pallavi Rastogi
Treasa De Loughry

Travelling While Black: Essays Inspired by a Life on the Move – Nanjala Nyabola
Ranka Primorac

Antiemetic for Homesickness – Romalyn Ante
Jennifer Wong

The Giant Dark – Sarvat Hasin
Sana Goyal

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