Wasafiri 13: Focus on South Asian Writing

Editorial

Susheila Nasta

Articles

Studies of South Asian Literature in Britain: A Personal View
Ronald Warwick

The Inner Courtyard: Making an Anthology
Lakshmi Holmström

Self Formations: Speculations on the question of Postcoloniality
Venkat Rao

The Afro-Asian and American Dreams of Race Relations in Bahadur Tejani’s Day After Tomorrow
Annie Koshi

‘Someone Smashed in the Door and Gave Me My Freedom’: The Writings of Jean Arasanayagam
Anders Sjobohm

British Universities and Black/Asian Candidates
Agnes Lam

Interviews

M G Vassanji
Susheila Nasta

Poetry

To the English Language and other poems
Debjani Chatterjee

Burnt Brown by the Sun; Draupadi
Lakshmi Kannan

On Seeing the Saffron Robed Man by the Ganges, Varanasi
P N Banerji

Photos in Various Poses
K G Sankara Pillai, trans. by E V Ramakrishnan

On Visiting Jejuri Ten Years After Kolatkar’s Famous Poem
R Raj Rao

From Voice of Unity
Varavar Rao

Uncle Mustka
Tariq Latif

Prayer
Bibek Jena, trans. by Bibhu Padhi

Fiction

In the Last Light
Kakoli Thompson

Parijata
Lakshmi Kannan

Leaving
M G Vassanji

Reviews

Pleasures and Sufferings of Different Worlds: The Novels of Adam Zameenzad
Robert Bush

Conflicts and Obsessions – Paul Scott
Catherine Cundy

Haroun and the Sea of Stories – Salman Rushdie 
A R Bex

How Many Miles to Babylon? – Adewale Maja-Pearce 
Imogen Forster

‘Ìsarà’: A Voyage Around ‘Essay’ – Wole Soyinka 
Gabriel Gbadamosi

Chinua Achebe – Lyn Innes 
Dennis Walder

Sunshine and Shadow: A Caribbean Anthology – Roy and Clifford Narinesingh, ed 
Squeeze Words Hard: Poetry for GCSE – Maureen Alcorn and Amanda Ebborn, ed
De Home Place: Poems for Renewal by Young People of Caribbean Origin – Abdul Malik, ed
John Craddock

Stories from South Asia – John Welch, ed 
C W Watson

New Literatures in English: Cross Cultural Readings
David Saunders

Film

African Cinema: A Brief Overview
Malcolm Turvey

The Kitchen Toto, Harry Hook, 1987
Maggy Hendry