David Dabydeen
Autor de Disappearance
Sobre El Autor
David Dabydeen is Professor of Literary Studies at the University of Warwick.
Series
Obras de David Dabydeen
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The Penguin Book of Migration Literature: Departures, Arrivals, Generations, Returns (2019) — Contribuidor — 71 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1959-12-09
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- Guyana
- País (para mapa)
- Guyana
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Berbice, Guyana
Miembros
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Listas
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- Obras
- 23
- También por
- 4
- Miembros
- 408
- Popularidad
- #59,622
- Valoración
- 3.5
- Reseñas
- 3
- ISBNs
- 57
- Idiomas
- 3
- Favorito
- 1
In Dabydeen's version, the long-overlooked drowning African slave in the foreground of the picture (whom the poet calls "Turner") becomes the narrator of the poem. After many years in the water he is trying, unsuccessfully, to reconnect with his past. Things are complicated by various other characters in the poem also called "Turner", including the captain of the slave-ship and a stillborn child. As the poem moves around unpredictably in time and place between Africa, Guyana, and India, and the slave-Turner and the captain-Turner both keep shifting ages and genders (and even numbers), this isn't a poem to read if you want to keep a close grip on what's happening and why. There's a lot in the poem to enjoy in terms of language and images, but in the end I'm not sure if we are really any further than agreeing with Dabydeen that slavery was cruel and evil. And an impression that somewhere a tortoiseshell cat has been at the tomatoes...
I found some of the other poems in this collection, where Dabydeen plays around with Guyanan creole, more interesting.
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