I Will Not Go : Translations, Transformations, and Chutney Fractals

Kaya Press

I Will Not GoTranslations, Transformations, and Chutney Fractals\nAuthor(s): Rajiv Mohabir\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Kaya Press, United States\nImprint: Kaya Press\nISBN-13: 9781935717003, 978-1935717003\nSynopsis\nPlayful and celebratory, yet also mourning the loss of language, this poetry anthology revives the fading tradition of Caribbean Hindustani songs\n\nIn a new groundbreaking anthology, award-winning poet, memoirist and translator Rajiv Mohabir (born 1981) engages with Indo-Caribbean language and culture, this time by inviting 17 diasporic writers to experiment with their own personal interpretations of two famous Chutney songs. Chutney music is a syncretic, Caribbean music born out of North Indian tunes and African beats. Caribbean Hindustani songs and poems, the basis for Chutney music, are no longer spoken with the frequency that they were two generations ago. To this end, Mohabir asked some of the most exciting Caribbean writers and poets working today to translate .