Wasafiri 119 Autumn 2024

Wasafiri 119: 40th Anniversary Issue – Futurisms
Introducing our 40th Anniversary Issue — Wasafiri 119: Futurisms.
 
This issue brings to the fore writers whose perspectives – on the present and on the future – have historically been side-lined. From alternative histories to critiques of the late-capitalist present; high fantasy, sci-fi and the posthuman; theories of landscape, the city, and the body; this milestone issue will showcase a branching network of writing on and around the power of persistence as resistance, as we continue to imagine into being futures that defy an increasingly oppressive present. 

Editorial Past / Now / Next / Dream

Lead Feature Against the Death of Dream

Articles Redefining Our Climate Future: New Approaches to Writing Climate Fiction; Un-imagining the University; The Speculative Anthology as a Formal Experiment in Futurity; African Literary Future/isms: Collective and Speculative Approaches

Interviews Alexis Wright; Suhaiymah Manzoor Khan, Yara Rodrigues Fowler, & Momtaza Mehri; Corey Brotherson, Chella Ramanan, & Rivers Solomon; Anthony V Capildeo & Yousif M Qasmiyeh; Anton Hur & Kaliane Bradley

Art Rebellion, Resistance, and Resilience: Three Black British Artists and Eco-Feminism

Fiction Fine Gråbøl, trans. Martin Aitken; Kim Hyun, trans. Archana Madhavan; Len Lukowski; Preti Taneja

Poetry Raymond Antrobus; Dzifa Benson; Natalie Linh Bolderston; Malika Booker; Gospel Chinedu; Shaun Hill; Gboyega Odubanjo; Norman Erikson Pasaribu; Yomi Ṣode

Life Writing Basma Ghalayini; Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor; Hannah Silva

Review Essay Healing, (Re)turning, and Dreaming Towards Better Worlds

Reviews [...], Fady Joudah; Your Utopia: Stories, Bora Chung, trans. Anton Hur; Writing the Future, ed. Dan Coxon and Richard V Hirst.

... and much more.

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Contents
Editorial

Past / Now / Next / Dream
Sana Goyal

Lead Feature

Against the Death of Dream
Annie Zaidi

Articles

African Literary Future/isms: Collective and Speculative Approaches
Sreya Mallika Datta and Joanna Woods

The Speculative Anthology as a Formal Experiment in Futurity
Annie Webster

Redefining our Climate Future: New Approaches to Writing Climate Fiction
Jimin Kang

Un-imagining the University
Madhu Krishnan

Life Writing

Not Dystopia
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

Alternative Intelligence
Hannah Silva

An End to the Simulation
Basma Ghalayini

Interviews

Imagining the Impossible: Yara Rodrigues Fowler, Suhaiymah Manzoor Khan, and Momtaza Mehri on Feminist Futures
Em Mercer

Genre Marauders: A Conversation with Corey Brotherson, Chella Ramanan, and Rivers Solomon
Leah Muwanga-Magoye

Changing the Future: In Conversation with Kaliane Bradley and Anton Hur
So Mayer

A Future of Our Own Making: In Conversation with Anthony V Capildeo and Yousif M Qasmiyeh
Maya Caspari

Writing in the All Times: An Interview with Alexis Wright
Jessica Gaitán Johannesson

Art

Rebellion, Resistance, and Resilience: Three Black British Artists and Eco-Feminism
Alice Correia

Fiction

This is Not a Game
Preti Taneja

The App
Len Lukowski

Sooyoung Swimming
Kim Hyun. Translated by Archana Madhavan

Sweet Corridor Law
Fine Gråbøl. Translated by Martin Aitken

Poetry

Remembering Gboyega Odubanjo and Benjamin Zephaniah
Raymond Antrobus, Dzifa Benson, Malika Booker, and Yomi Ṣode

Function
Gboyega Odubanjo

Rhapsody of Icarus Where Daedalus is an Orchardman
Gospel Chinedu

Notes on the Machine
Norman Erikson Pasaribu

where music takes us
Shaun Hill

Palimpsest; [archaic]: to practise divination; Notes on Fortune
Natalie Linh Bolderston

Review Essay

Healing, (Re)turning, and Dreaming Towards Better Worlds 
from unincorporated terrority [åmot] – Craig Santos Perez
The Moon That Turns You Back – Hala Alyan
Anishinaabe Songs for a New Millennium – Marcie R Rendon
Prerana Kumar

Reviews

Writing the Future: Essays on Crafting Science Fiction – Dan Coxon and Richard V Hurst, eds
Sharmin Islam

The Saint of Bright Doors – Vajra Chandrasekera
Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon – Wole Talabi
Kris Van der Bijl

Imagining Palestine: Cultures of Exile and National Identity – Tahrir Hamdi
David Johnson

amuk – Khairani Barokka
Horse – Rushika Wick
Oluwaseun Olayiwola

Home is Not A Place – Johny Pitts and Roger Robinson
Ariana Nkwanyuo

Your Utopia – Bora Chung. Translated by Anton Hur
Nayantara Srinivasan

[...] – Fady Joudah
Alycia Pirmohamed