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Reflections

Volume 2 Number 2

Reflections

Description

This issue explores the commitment to literature and art as reflecting, and reflecting back us back to, lived experience, and hence to seeing things anew. The essays and creative contributions both urge the need for a critical re-engagement with history and narrative, given an increasingly imperialistic tendency among many post-independence nations to rewrite and take possession of the past as a means of legitimizing power.

  • Contents
    • EDITORIAL
      • Shirley Chew
    • INTERVIEW
      • Paula Goldman, Home, Blood, and Belonging:

        A Conversation with Caryl Phillips

    • FICTION
      • Sarah Joseph, Broken Bridge

        Translated from Malayalam by Valson Thampu

      • Kath McKay, ‘Hello, my name is Susan’
      • Murungu, George
      • Nayantara Sahgal, Earthly Love
    • POETRY
      • Stephen Gray, Shelley Cinema
      • Steven Matthews, Residua, Parvus Caeruleus, Hoard
      • Ron Smith, Fish, At Day’s End
      • C.K. Stead, Dunedin, Of Irony
      • Robert Vas Dias, Rubber Bands, Stairs, Half Life,

        Song of the Cities

    • ARTICLES
      • Robert Fraser, Is There a Gibbon in the House?
      • Abdulrazak Gurnah, An Idea of the Past
      • Gerard Houghton, Reflection: Emmanuel Taiwo Jegede

        and the Mirror of the Mind

      • Isobel Ryan, The Old and the New: Fast Food in Cairo
      • Briar Wood, Back on the Road Again: After Glorified Scales
    • REVIEWS
      • NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS