Mootoo Shani - Oh Witness Dey! - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Two - 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.
Title: Oh Witness Dey!
Author(s): Mootoo Shani
Publisher: Book* Hug
Barcode: 9781771668767
Pages: 190 Pages
Publication Date: 3/26/2024
Category: Poetry By Individual Poets