I will not go : translations, transformations, & chutney fractals / edited by Rajiv Mohabir.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mohabir, Rajiv, editor.

Indo-Caribbean Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Indic (Other)

Subjects (All):

Caribbean poetry--21st century.

Caribbean poetry.

East Indians--Caribbean Area--Music.

East Indians.

East Indians--Caribbean Area--Poetry.

Hindustani music--Translations.

Hindustani music.

Hindustani poetry--Translations.

Hindustani poetry.

Chutney (Music)--Translations.

Chutney (Music).

Physical Description:

175 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

[Los Angeles, CA] : Kaya Press, [2024]

Summary:

"In this groundbreaking anthology, award-winning poet, memoirist and translator Rajiv Mohabir revitalizes Indo-Caribbean language and culture, and invites 17 diasporic writers to experiment with their own personal interpretations of two famous Chutney songs. The syncretic music of chutney blends North Indian tunes and African beats with songs and poems in Caribbean Hindustani, a language with fewer and fewer speakers that continues to endure. To this end, Caribbean writers and poets here translate, reimagine, and respond to Chutney music from different vantages of the Caribbean diaspora. A bold and inventive collection, teeming with grief and joy, "I Will Not Go" collects poetry inherited by the descendants of indenture and celebrates the music of survival."-- Back cover.

Contents:

Like Chutney Masala / Rajiv Mohabir

My In-Law's Door: Translations. I Will Not Go to My In-Laws Home / Krystal M. Ramroop

Ah Cyah Go Da Man House / Aliyah Khan

I Will Not Go / Divya Persaud

Old Day / Kaneesha Cherelle Parsard

Na Badda / Nadia Misir

Meh Guh Stuck Deh So, Meh Nah Guh Go / Alex Bacchus

Your Radha Needs You / Simone Devi Jhingoor

Chapter Two / Andre Bagoo

Sansur / Eddie Bruce-Jones

Coming Home / Anu Lakhan

Meh Na Gan Sas and Sasur / Will Depoo

No Joy Be / Natasha Ramoutar

"Meh Nah Ah Go Dem In-Law House, Daddy" / Nicholas Peters

Don't Send Me Back, Daddy / Anita Baksh

Na Mek Me Go / Miranda Rachel Deebrah

I Will Not Go to My Father-in-Law's Home / Elizabeth Jaikaran

A Next One Was Found in a Barrel, Body Bloated / Chandanie Somwaru

Fasten Your Veil: Translations. Take Your Veil / Divya Persaud

Today Beloved Father-in-Law House Must Go / Anita Baksh

Chunari, Chunari / Aliyah Khan

Big Daddy / Andre Bagoo

Ayo Kyahnt Outrun Faddahinla Houws / Alex Bacchus

Promises / Eddie Bruce-Jones

It is Your Time / Kaneesha Cherelle Parsard

Today, My Love, You Must Meet Our Greatest Love / Elizabeth Jaikaran

"Baba, Is Time Fuh Go Yuh In-Law House" / Nicholas Peters

Return to God / Miranda Rachel Deebrah

Separation / Simone Devi Jhingoor

I'm Tired of the Men Telling Us / Chandanie Somwaru

Today, the Dulahin Leaves for Sasur's Home / Krystal M. Ramroop

Today, Beloved, You Must Leave for Yuh Sasural House / Nadia Misir

Fadda-in-Law House / Will Depoo

Today, Be Loved / Natasha Ramoutar

Yamraj, Even Prayer is Hidden From Me / Anu Lakhan

Fractals I: The Afterlives of Chutney. At a Karaoke Bar on 101st Avenue in Richmond Hill / Suzanne C. Persard

Chutney Poem / Nadia Misir

"Guyana Kay Dulahin Migrate to America" / Aliyah Khan

On This Threshold / Nicholas Peters

In Good Humor / Elizabeth Jaikaran

Marriage / Anita Baksh

Childhood Days Gone / Simone Devi Jhingoor

Bidaai / Krystal M. Ramroop

Nah Tek Yuh Eye and Pass Meh / Will Depoo

Pardes / Divya Persaud

For My Sister / Miranda Rachel Deebrah

Kissmehass Rum Sukkah / Alex Bacchus

Fractals II: And Sometimes Voices Wake. Modulation / Natasha Ramoutar

Soon Come / Eddie Bruce-Jones

In a Corner of Hindu Town / Suzanne C. Persard

The Bereaved Explains Her Route to Jannah, or, How the Churail Lost Her Eyesight / Elizabeth Jaikaran

The Coolie Woman Climbs Out of the Portrait / Kaneesha Cherelle Parsard

Jewel / Divya Persaud

To the women who've left their bodies / Chandanie Somwaru

Off-Off Broadway String Ensemble / Anu Lakhan

Hurricane Erasures / Andre Bagoo

On Chutney

Afterword: Chutney Feminist Poetics: The Politics and Possibilities of Post-Indenture Coolie Grammars / Ryan Persadie.

Notes:

Contributors include Alex Bacchus, Andre Bagoo, Anita Baksh, Eddie Bruce-Jones, Miranda Rachel Deebrah, Will Depoo, Elizabeth Jaikaran, Simone Devi Jhingoor, Aliyah Khan, Anu Lakhan, Nadia Misir, Rajiv Mohabir, Kaneesha Cherelle Parsard, Ryan Persadie, Suzanne C. Persard, Divya M. Persaud, Nicholas Peters, Natasha Ramoutar, Krystal M. Ramroop, and Chandanie Somwaru.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1935717006

9781935717003

OCLC:

1422074299