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A review by seneca6891
Antiman: A Hybrid Memoir by Rajiv Mohabir
2.0
This read like three memoirs. One memoir is Rajiv trying to reconnect to his family’s pre-indenture past, another explores what it means to be gay and Indo-Caribbean, and the third is a dysfunctional family memoir. The memoirs never really meet each other in a cohesive way. Perhaps the book’s disjointed structure is intended to mirror the author’s fractured identities.
The book is at times repetitive, and I found myself growing impatient with the experimental structure (prose, poetry, songs and poetry in Hindi/Creole).
A lot of what the author intended to do seems unresolved. We are told he wants to grapple with what it means to be gay and Guyanese (hence the title “Antiman”) but his Guyanese identity feels like the least explored element in the book.
The book is at times repetitive, and I found myself growing impatient with the experimental structure (prose, poetry, songs and poetry in Hindi/Creole).
A lot of what the author intended to do seems unresolved. We are told he wants to grapple with what it means to be gay and Guyanese (hence the title “Antiman”) but his Guyanese identity feels like the least explored element in the book.