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The Critic at Work and Play: In Conversation with Margo Jefferson Wasafiri Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Franklin Nelson
Published in Wasafiri (Vol. 39, No. 1, 2024)
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Creativity and Capitalism: Alexander Chee and Isabel Waidner in Conversation Wasafiri Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Alexander Chee, Isabel Waidner
Published in Wasafiri (Vol. 39, No. 1, 2024)
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Memory Map Wasafiri Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Andrés N Ordorica
Published in Wasafiri (Vol. 39, No. 1, 2024)
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Spectral Trans Figures: The Ambiguous and Atemporal Hijra Body in Narcopolis Wasafiri Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Karthik Shankar
Over the past decade, the hijra, a marginalised subculture referred to as the ‘third sex' in India and ‘transgender' in Western contexts has become a prominent presence in Indian anglophone literar...
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Writing in/against the Academy: Contemporary Biomythographies by women of colour Wasafiri Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Georgia Lin
Biomythography is a rich literary medium through which women of colour writers can simultaneously express their hopes for the future and anxieties about the injustices of the present. This essay co...
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On the Luxury of Writing with Honesty Wasafiri Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Zeba Talkhani
Published in Wasafiri (Vol. 39, No. 1, 2024)
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The Sound of Freedom Wasafiri Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Sana Goyal
Published in Wasafiri (Vol. 39, No. 1, 2024)
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Custard Pies Wasafiri Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Jen Calleja
Published in Wasafiri (Vol. 39, No. 1, 2024)
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Diversity–Inclusion–Equity Wasafiri Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Meena Kandasamy
Published in Wasafiri (Vol. 39, No. 1, 2024)
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That Which We Call a Rose Wasafiri Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Sharika Nair
Published in Wasafiri (Vol. 39, No. 1, 2024)
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Absent Presence Wasafiri Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Nasia Sarwar-Skuse
Published in Wasafiri (Vol. 39, No. 1, 2024)
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Mother, Earth — A Colloquy Wasafiri Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Swati Rana
Published in Wasafiri (Vol. 39, No. 1, 2024)
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Letter from Kingston Wasafiri Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Annie Paul
Published in Wasafiri (Vol. 39, No. 1, 2024)
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Dambore Dambore: Bidding Goodbye to Mauritian Bhojpuri Wasafiri Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Vedita Cowaloosur
Published in Wasafiri (Vol. 39, No. 1, 2024)
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Uprooted in the ‘Postcolonial’ Moment: Attia Hosain’s No New Lands, No New Seas Wasafiri Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Mobeen Hussain
‘Attia has come home.’ This is how Shama Habibullah describes the publication of a Distant Traveller (2013), a collection of essays and fiction written by her mother Attia Hosain. After the Partiti...
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A Glossary for Moving Overseas Wasafiri Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Yilin Wang
Published in Wasafiri (Vol. 39, No. 1, 2024)
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High Stakes: Elaine Castillo on Being Better Readers Wasafiri Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Katie Goh
Published in Wasafiri (Vol. 39, No. 1, 2024)
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Out of Sri Lanka: Tamil, Sinhala & English Poetry from Sri Lanka & Its Diasporas Wasafiri Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Adrija Ghosh
Published in Wasafiri (Vol. 39, No. 1, 2024)
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River in an Ocean: Essays on Translation; Letters to a Writer of Color Wasafiri Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Chandrica Barua
Published in Wasafiri (Vol. 39, No. 1, 2024)
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Disorientation; The Unfortunates Wasafiri Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Vika Mujumdar
Published in Wasafiri (Vol. 39, No. 1, 2024)
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Kibogo; No Edges Wasafiri Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Mayada Ibrahim
Published in Wasafiri (Vol. 39, No. 1, 2024)
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White Literary Taste Production in Contemporary Book Culture; Reading Bestsellers: Recommendation Culture and the Multimodal Reader Wasafiri Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Torsa Ghosal
Published in Wasafiri (Vol. 39, No. 1, 2024)
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Mister N; Traces of Enayat Wasafiri Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Lara El Mekaui
Published in Wasafiri (Vol. 39, No. 1, 2024)
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The Centre; Meet Us by the Roaring Sea Wasafiri Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Dur e Aziz Amna
Published in Wasafiri (Vol. 39, No. 1, 2024)
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Brown is Redacted: Reflecting on Race in Singapore Wasafiri Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Joshua Babcock
Published in Wasafiri (Vol. 38, No. 4, 2023)
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Of the Florids Wasafiri Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Gopika Jadeja
Published in Wasafiri (Vol. 38, No. 4, 2023)
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‘The Gravity of Her Existence’: Madeleine Thien on Y-Dang Troeung Wasafiri Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Madeleine Thien
Published in Wasafiri (Vol. 38, No. 4, 2023)
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On the Edge: Fate and Flourishing in the Fringes Wasafiri Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Theophilus Kwek
Published in Wasafiri (Vol. 38, No. 4, 2023)
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Collecting Through Absence: Fragmenting Vietnamese Refugee Archives Wasafiri Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Cindy Anh Nguyen
Published in Wasafiri (Vol. 38, No. 4, 2023)
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From Our Waters Wasafiri Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Nuraliah Norasid
Published in Wasafiri (Vol. 38, No. 4, 2023)
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Accountability, Liminality, and (Mis)Representations in Translation: Khairani Barokka and Tiffany Tsao in conversation Wasafiri Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Khairani Barokka
Published in Wasafiri (Vol. 38, No. 4, 2023)
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Hikayat Raja Babi Wasafiri Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Excerpted and Translated By Nazry Bahrawi
Published in Wasafiri (Vol. 38, No. 4, 2023)
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Transmedial Meditations on the Shores of Southeast Asia Wasafiri Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Jasmine Gui
With artist statements from Trinh Mai and Zi Hao Wong
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A Space for Freedom of Thought and Expression: An Interview with The Mekong Review’s Kirsten Han Wasafiri Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Sudhir Vadaketh
Published in Wasafiri (Vol. 38, No. 4, 2023)
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Passionate Engagements, Intimate Entrapments: Love, War, and Those Caught Between EMPIRE and Nation Wasafiri Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Adrian Alarilla
This essay looks at the rise of the first-person documentary within the Filipino diaspora as a way of reflecting on their own situated knowledges while at the same time teasing out the intimacies o...
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The Sand Man Wasafiri Pub Date : 2023-11-20 William Jamieson
Published in Wasafiri (Vol. 38, No. 4, 2023)
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Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced An Emergency; Imperium Wasafiri Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Jennifer Wong
Published in Wasafiri (Vol. 38, No. 4, 2023)
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Tale of the Dreamer’s Son Wasafiri Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Dina Zaman
Published in Wasafiri (Vol. 38, No. 4, 2023)
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Chinatown; Wandering Souls Wasafiri Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Pengfei Zhang
Published in Wasafiri (Vol. 38, No. 4, 2023)
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The Great Reclamation; The Age of Goodbyes Wasafiri Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Kwan Ann Tan
Published in Wasafiri (Vol. 38, No. 4, 2023)
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Litorally Speaking Wasafiri Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Nazry Bahrawi, Joanne Leow, Y-Dang Troeung
Published in Wasafiri (Vol. 38, No. 4, 2023)
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Between Land Reclamation and Labour, Empathy and Asian New Wave Film: Fungibility in Yeo Siew Hua’s A Land Imagined 幻土 Wasafiri Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Jerrine Tan
Yeo Siew Hua's film A Land Imagined (2018) is interspersed with long scenes at a work site. The camera often rests on the droning work of machines and workers carting and sorting gravel. But for al...
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Islands; Lolo; The great pretenders Wasafiri Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Shirley Camia
Published in Wasafiri (Vol. 38, No. 4, 2023)
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Landscape with Rusted Nail; Water Before, AFTER; The First Boat Wasafiri Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Jim Pascual Agustin
Published in Wasafiri (Vol. 38, No. 4, 2023)
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Li Zishu’s Hidden Transcripts of Post-1970s Malaysia: Literature and Religion in Land of Floating Customs Wasafiri Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Nicholas Y H Wong
The sinophone Malaysian writer Li Zishu's recent novel about class stylistics, popular religion, citizen subject, and ritual belonging in postcolonial Malaysia can be better understood if we transl...
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As a Kind of Contact Wasafiri Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Lawrence Lacambra Ypil
Published in Wasafiri (Vol. 38, No. 4, 2023)
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People Everywhere: Three Books on Authoritarianism and Resistance Wasafiri Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Reuven Pinnata
Published in Wasafiri (Vol. 38, No. 4, 2023)
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Mediating Aotearoa: Essays on Māori Culture; Wow Wasafiri Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Yingjie M Cheng
Published in Wasafiri (Vol. 38, No. 4, 2023)
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What We Carried Wasafiri Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Lishani Ramanayake
Published in Wasafiri (Vol. 38, No. 3, 2023)
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Diasporic Dysphoria: Decoding Affective Detachment in Disgrace and Severance Wasafiri Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Julia Desiree Merican
This paper is a comparative reading of J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace (1999) and Ling Ma's Severance (2018), analysing their shared affective mood of detachment, which I will call “diasporic dysphoria”. In these works, I propose that this dispassionate mood depicts both protagonists as diasporic citizens of their postcolonial and late capitalist societies. Coetzee and Ma use the affective mood of diasporic
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The Illuminated Wasafiri Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Gurnaik Johal
Published in Wasafiri (Vol. 38, No. 3, 2023)
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One Small Voice Wasafiri Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Annie Zaidi
Published in Wasafiri (Vol. 38, No. 3, 2023)
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Deporting Black Britons: Portraits of Deportation to Jamaica Wasafiri Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Evie Lewis
Published in Wasafiri (Vol. 38, No. 2, 2023)