Grace Aneiza Ali, Gaiutra Bahadur, Rajiv Mohabir
PROFESSOR GRACE ANEIZA ALI (NYU Department of Art & Public Policy) will be in conversation with GAIUTRA BAHADUR (Visiting Scholar, A/P/A Institute at NYU) about I Even Regret Night: Holi Songs of Demerara (Kaya Press, 2018), which chronicles the “interior lives of indentured men” (Bahadur).
While conducting research for her book Coolie Woman, Bahadur came across Lalbihari Sharma's Holi Songs of Demerara, the only known literary work written by an indentured laborer in the Anglophone Caribbean. She passed the songbook, written in a combination of Awadhi, Bhojpuri, and Braj Bhasha, to award-winning Indo-Caribbean poet and translator RAJV MOHABIR, and a literary recovery project was born.
This event will feature readings from the book as well an an opportunity for audience members to record their own family histories of indenture and migration with the South Asian American Digital Archive.
DATE AND TIME
Monday, October 29, 2018
6.30pm - 8.30pm EDT
LOCATION
NYU King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center located at 53 Washington Square South
FREE
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Presented by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. Co-sponsored by the NYU Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, South Asian American Digital Archive, Rajkumari Cultural Center, Jahajee Sisters, Guyana Modern.com, and Asian American Writers’ Workshop.