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OverviewTwo-timer I am, infatuated With the country in which I love Yearning in corners, around bends For the one I grew up in Shani Mootoo’s great-great-grandparents were brought to Trinidad as indentured labourers by the British. There is no record of where they were from in India or whether it was kidnapping, trickery, or false promises of wealth that took them to the Caribbean. In Oh Witness Dey! Mootoo expands the question of origins, from ancestry percentages and journey narratives, through memory, story, and lyric fragments. These vibrant poems transcend the tropes of colonial violence through saints and spices, rebellion and joy, to reimagine tensions and solidarities among various diasporas. They circumvent traditional conventions of style to find new routes toward understanding. They invite the reader to witness history, displacements and the legacies of our inheritance. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Shani MootooPublisher: Book*hug Imprint: Book*hug Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 0.80cm , Length: 20.30cm Weight: 0.181kg ISBN: 9781771668767ISBN 10: 1771668768 Pages: 190 Publication Date: 26 March 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsResilience Praise Be (1) My Heart is an Island Terminus temporary Psssst: Not so fast Praise Be (2) Master Class Impasse Brown Girl in The Ring Bartolome The Big Despite Cost of Living The Nevertheless Queen In the Theatre of War Praise Be (3) Matayla, Matayla Sapodilla Documentary: Indian Limbo The Beginning The End We Pune and Delhi Witness, Oh Witness Dey Game of watch the Migrant Dream #1 Game of Watch the Migrant Dream #2 Praise Be (4) Point of Convergence CosmicReviews"""These poems remind us of the importance of looking back, because history defines our present and our future, as the past is not past, and the greed and violence echo down generations. Mootoo's voice captures that echo and yet transmutes it, elevates it into song."" --Kaie Kellough, Griffin Poetry Prize-winning author of Magnetic Equator" Author InformationShani Mootoo was born in Ireland and raised in Trinidad. Mootoo's highly acclaimed writing includes the novels Polar Vortex, Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab, Valmiki's Daughter, He Drown She in the Sea, and Cereus Blooms at Night, as well as the poetry collections The Predicament of Or , Cane | Fire, and Oh Witness Dey! Her poetry has appeared in Wasafiri, Poetry Magazine, and Room Magazine. She has been awarded the degree of Doctor of Letters honoris causa from Western University, is a recipient of Lambda Literary's James Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize, and the Writers' Trust Engel Findley Award. She lives in Southern Ontario, Canada. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |