Tag: Wasafiri

  • Cedric Dover Wasafiri Volume 27, Issue 2 (2012) pages 56-57 DOI: 10.1080/02690055.2012.662322 Cedric Dover was born in Calcutta in 1904. Dover’s mixed ancestry (English father, Indian mother) and his studies in zoology led to a strong interest in ethnic minorities and their marginalisation. After his studies, he joined the Zoological Survey of India as a…

  • Bessora: A Writer with a Thirty-Eight Shoe Size Wasafiri Volume 24, Issue 2 (2009) pages 60-65 DOI: 10.1080/02690050902771779 Adele King The character of literary criticism combined with pedagogical strategies tends to categorise, moving one accepted orthodoxy forward by pushing another out of the way. Early approaches to European literature were to treat it as a…

  • The passing of Charles Chesnutt: Mining the white tradition Wasafiri Volume 13, Issue 27 pages 5-10 DOI 10.1080/02690059808589583 Sarah Meer, Lecturer of English Univeristy of Cambridge In May 1880, the young Charles Chesnutt confided to his diary his ambition to write a book. Its object would be ‘not so much the elevation of the colored people’—the concern…

  • Stories and survival’: An Interview with Jackie Kay Wasafiri Volume 25, Issue 4, 2010 pages 19-22 DOI: 10.1080/02690055.2010.510366 Maggie Gee Jackie Kay has had a glittering career as a writer of poetry, fiction and drama for both adults and children. She was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1961 to a Scottish mother and a Nigerian…

  • Editorial: The Illusion of Inclusion Wasafiri Volume 25, Issue 4 (2010) pages 1-6 DOI: 10.1080/02690055.2010.510357 This special issue of Wasafiri – ‘Black Britain: Beyond Definition’ – focuses on writers who are of black and mixed heritage. Labelling us in this way can, of course, be problematic. The badge ‘black writer’ or ‘Black British writer’ or…

  • The politics of everyday hybridity: Zadie Smith’s White Teeth Wasafiri: The Magazine Of International Contemporary Writing Volume 18, Issue 39 Summer 2003 pages 11-17 DOI: 10.1080/02690050308589837 Laura Moss, Associate Professor of English University of British Columbia Read the entire article here.