Wasafiri 53

With articles on the Urdu short story, the economy of survival in Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory, and the semiotics of the voice in Achmat Dangor's Bitter Fruit, plus interviews with Rasheed Araeen and Vikram Chandra, fiction by Mridula Koshy, and so much more, this issue offers a fascinating look into the best literature today.

Articles

Uncertain Partitions: ‘Undecidability’ and the Urdu Short Story
Alex Padamsee

Translating Chameleons (Giving an African reptile an English voice)
Daniel Hahn

‘Against All Odds’: The Experience of Trauma and the Economy of Survival in Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory
Semia Harbawi

Listening Otherwise: The Semiotics of the Voice in Achmat Dangor’s Bitter Fruit
Helene Strauss

Obituary: Ousmane Sembene: ‘Father of African Cinema’
Imruh Bakari

Fiction

How Shall We Kill the Bishop?
Lily Mabura

Romancing the Koodawallah
Mridula Koshy

Excerpt: ‘A Country Preacher — A Pine Tree with Two Feet? — & the Green Corn Dance(r)’
Gregory Rutledge

Interviews

‘The In-Between Worlds of Olive Senior’: An Interview
Hyacinth Simpson

Rasheed Araeen in Conversation
Richard Dyer

Interview with Vikram Chandra
Claire Chambers

Poetry 

The Sea of Olden Men; One heron in Buenos Aires
Luis Benitez

Marae; As If For a Meeting
Iain Britton

Voices
Sue Butler

Reviews

Here From Elsewhere: The Ambit Poetry Series
Winston Churchill Knew My Mother – Satyendra Srivastava
Memories of a Summer in Brist Near Gradac and Other Poems – Sonja Besford
A Day within Days – Liu Hongbin
Bells of Speech – Nazand Begkhani
Richard Dyer

Dyson In That Sense You Touched It – Ketaki Kushari
Unquiet Waters – Lakshmi Kannan
Christine Gomez

Landscape and Empire: 1770 – 2000 – Glen Hooper, ed
Jeffrey Mather

Twentieth-Century Caribbean Literature: Critical Moments in Anglophone Literary History – Alison Donnell
Katherine Verhagen

Bridges Across Chasms – Bénédict Ledent, ed
I been there, sort of: New and Selected Poems – Mervyn Morris
Michael Niblett

University of Hunger: Collected Poems and Selected Prose – Martin Carter
Jonathan Morley

Sacred Games – Vikram Chandra
Florian Stadtler

Lazy Eye – Donna Daley-Clarke
26a – Diana Evans
Chini Cheryl Ugboma

Londonstani – Gautam Malkani
Frederick Luis Aldama

Tourism – Nirpal Singh Dhaliwal
Trussed – Shiromi Pinto
Sukhdev Sandhu

Green Trade – Debbie Tucker
Deirdre Osborne