A Queer Indo-Guyanese Poet’s Postcolonial Memoir of His Search for Belonging

I first came to poet Rajiv Mohabir’s work through his cutting meditation on why he will never celebrate Indian Arrival Day, which Guyana celebrates on May 5th to commemorate the arrival of indentured Indian workers in the Caribbean. In the essay for the Asian American Writers Workshop’s The Margins, Mohabir uses his family’s migration story […] The post A Queer Indo-Guyanese Poet’s Postcolonial Memoir of His Search for Belonging appeared first on Electric Literature. Continue reading at 'Electric Literature'

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