Region/Writing/Home: Relocating Diasporic Writing in Britain

Volume 9 Number 2


Region Writing Home

Description

This issue examines diasporic writing in Britain. The diversity of the contributions in the issue confounds any attempt to homogenize Britain. The essays and creative pieces are set in Liverpool, Leeds, London, Manchester, Rotherham and Sheffield, but these locations are viewed through the lenses of ‘elsewhere’: the Caribbean, India, Pakistan, Ireland, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Sri Lanka.

  • Contents
    • EDITORIAL
      • CORINNE FOWLER & GRAHAM MORT
    • FICTION
      • DINESH ALLIRAJAH, The Words To Tell Them
      • MULI AMAYE, The Dance
      • FADIA FAQIR, From At the Midnight Kitchen

        Mr Sufian Didan: Il-Doctoor Meets Monique

    • POETRY
      • JOHN SIDDIQUE, A Seed to a Flower, the Simplest Thing:

        Jali, Kitying, Abha, Maria, Junmo

      • SHAMSHAD KHAN, Manchester Snow
      • MONIZA ALVI, Elsewhere, In Space
      • BASIR SULTAN KAZMI, Ghazals
      • IAN DUHIG, After Ovid, River Mask, The Holy City
    • AUTOBIOGRAPHY
      • TANYA CHAN-SAM, Across the Indian Ocean:

        Chinese Hybridity in South Africa

    • ARTICLES
      • JOHN WHALE, Accounting for the Life of Paul Cuffe
      • DANIELLE FULLER AND JAMES PROCTER, Reading as ‘social glue’?

        Book Groups, Multiculture, and the Small Island Read 2007

      • RENUKA RAJARATNAM, Contemporary British Poetry and the

        Transcultural Imagination

      • SARAH GIBSON, The Curry Mile: Placing Taste,

        Tasting Place in Manchester

      • KATE PAHL WITH ANDY POLLARD AND ZAFIR RAFIQ, Changing Identities,

        Changing Spaces: The Ferham Families Exhibition in Rotherham

      • DEBJANI CHATTERJEE, Slices of Yorkshire:

        A Short History of Sahitya Press

      • LUCY EVANS, Questioning Black Identity: Strategies of Digression in

        E.A. Markham’s Meet Me in Mozambique

    • REVIEWS
      • by DAVID LASCELLES, RACHEL FAREBROTHER, ABIGAIL WARD
    • NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS