Wasafiri, Volume 37, Issue 1 (2022)

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Editorial

Editorial
A Fold in Time
Emily Mercer
Pages: 1-2
Published online: 23 Feb 2022
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Poetry

Gulf of Paria
Fawzia Muradali Kane
Page: 3
Published online: 23 Feb 2022
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Feature

Article
‘Discontent, Spray Paint and Desire’: On Trans Literary Activism
Nat Raha, Sabah Choudrey, CN Lester & Roz Kaveney
Pages: 4-12
Published online: 23 Feb 2022
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Essay Prize Winner 2021

Article
The ‘Old Hong Kong’ and ‘A Gold-Sifting Bird’: Hong Kong and Chinese Ekphrasis in Contemporary British Poetry
Antony Huen
Pages: 13-21
Published online: 23 Feb 2022
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Interview

‘We are Louder when we are Heard Together’: Sara Ahmed on Complaint!
Adrija Dey
Pages: 22-30
Published online: 23 Feb 2022
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Poetry

Three Women in a Single-Room House
K Srilata
Pages: 31-32
Published online: 23 Feb 2022
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Interview

From Brick Lane to Love Marriage: An Interview with Monica Ali
C S Bhagya
Pages: 33-37
Published online: 23 Feb 2022
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Fiction

Harriet’s Party: An Excerpt from Love Marriage
Monica Ali
Pages: 38-40
Published online: 23 Feb 2022
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Art

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The Act of Return: Stacey Tyrell’s Chattel Photographs
Kate Keohane
Pages: 41-51
Published online: 23 Feb 2022
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Life Writing

Article
The Solid Facts of a Life
Portia Roelofs
Pages: 52-56
Published online: 23 Feb 2022
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Article

Article
Digitally Mapping Caribbean London: Urban Strolls in the 1950S BBC Radio Archive
Alex Fabrizio
Pages: 57-69
Published online: 23 Feb 2022
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Poetry New Writing Prize Winner 2021

सफ़रनामा / safarnama
Dipanjali Roy
Page: 71
Published online: 23 Feb 2022
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Fiction New Writing Prize Winner 2021

First to Go
Kate Carne
Pages: 72-76
Published online: 23 Feb 2022
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Life Writing New Writing Prize Winner 2021

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Swallow
Anne O’Brien
Pages: 77-78
Published online: 23 Feb 2022
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Interview

‘A Crucial Unlearning’: Saikat Majumdar in Conversation
Sohinee Roy
Pages: 79-84
Published online: 23 Feb 2022
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Poetry

Ghazal: Birthworts
After Amrita Sher-Gil’s Painting ‘Group of Three Girls’
Rupinder Kaur
Page: 85
Published online: 23 Feb 2022
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Article

Article
Who Wins? The Politics of Prize Culture in Canada’s CODE Burt Awards
Dessa Bayrock & Sarah Brouillette
Pages: 86-94
Published online: 23 Feb 2022
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Reviews

Book Review
We are. We are Here: New Perspectives on Writing from the Margins
Not Quite Right for Us: Forty Writers Speak Volumes Sharmilla Beezmohun, ed. flipped eye, London 2021, pb, 231pp, £11.19 ISBN 9781905233632 | www.flippedeye.netPortrait of Colossus Samatar Elmi flipped eye, London 2021, pb, 40pp, £4.00 ISBN 9781905233618 | www.flippedeye.netHis Father’s Disease Aruni Kashyap flipped eye, London 2021, pb, 184pp, £7.99 ISBN 9780954157098 | www.flippedeye.net
Samanta Bellotta
Pages: 95-98
Published online: 23 Feb 2022
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Insurgent Imaginations: World Literature and the Periphery
Auritro Majumder Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK 2020, hb, 226pp, £75.00 ISBN 9781108477574 | www.cambridge.org
Manav Ratti
Pages: 99-100
Published online: 23 Feb 2022
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The Book of Jakarta: A City in Short Fiction
Maesy Ang and Teddy W Kusuma, eds., trans. by Mikael Johani et al Comma Press, Manchester 2020, pb, 144pp, £9.99 ISBN 9781912697328 | https://commapress.co.uk/Anxious Joburg: The Inner Lives of a Global South City Nicky Falkof and Cobus van Staden, eds. Wits University Press, Johannesburg 2020, pb, 296pp, $35.00 ISBN 9781776146284 | https://witspress.co.za/
Elleke Boehmer
Pages: 100-102
Published online: 23 Feb 2022
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Glocal Narratives of Resilience
Ana María Fraile-Marcos, ed. Routledge, New York and London 2020, hb, 230pp, £96.00 ISBN 9780367261337 | www.routledge.com
Janet M Wilson
Pages: 102-104
Published online: 23 Feb 2022
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Book Review
Repentance
Eloísa Díaz Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 2021, hb, 306pp, £14.99 ISBN 9781474613835 | https://www.weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk/
Patricia Duffaud
Pages: 104-105
Published online: 23 Feb 2022
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Book Review
Fortune
Amanda Smyth Peepal Tree Press, Leeds 2021, pb, 266pp, £10.99 ISBN 9781845235192 | https://www.peepaltreepress.com
Franklin Nelson
Pages: 105-107
Published online: 23 Feb 2022
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Out of Darkness, Shining Light / The First Woman
Petina Gappah Faber & Faber, London 2019, hb, 308pp, £16.99 ISBN 9780571345328 | www.faber.co.ukJennifer Nansubuga Makumbi Oneworld, London 2020, hb, 437pp, £16.99 ISBN 9781786077882 | https://oneworld-publications.com
Chris Dunton
Pages: 107-108
Published online: 23 Feb 2022
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A Lonely Man
Chris Power Faber & Faber, London 2021, hb, 299pp, £14.99 ISBN 9780571341214 | www.faber.co.uk
W B Gooderham
Pages: 108-110
Published online: 23 Feb 2022
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Three Rooms
Jo Hamya Jonathan Cape, London 2021, hb, 208pp, £12.99 ISBN 9781787333314 | www.penguin.co.uk
Vamika Sinha
Pages: 110-112
Published online: 23 Feb 2022
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Little Gods
Meng Jin Pushkin Press, London 2021, pb, 279pp, £14.99 ISBN 9781911590439 | www.pushkinpress.com
J A Mensah
Pages: 112-113
Published online: 23 Feb 2022
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Among the Contributors

Among the Contributors
Pages: 114-116
Published online: 23 Feb 2022
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