AAARI Reads fosters a communal reading experience for CUNY students, staff, and faculty of work by Asian American and Pacific Islander writers. AAARI Reads focuses on texts that reflect the complex and heterogeneous identities and experiences of AAPI New Yorkers.
Our inaugural selection is Rajiv Mohabir’s Antiman: a Hybrid Memoir, an experimental genre-blending exploration of the ways that race, sexuality, gender, and diasporic culture inform Mohabir’s experiences as a queer immigrant Indo-Guyanese poet. Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing (2021), this hybrid memoir takes up themes of exile, displacement, home, and belonging through narrative, poetry, song, and other forms of expression. For more information about Rajiv Mohabir and his writing, please visit http://www.rajivmohabir.com/about.
We invite you to read Antiman with your friends, members of your student club, colleagues in your office or department, or through another space on your campus. If you are a faculty member, we invite you to consider adding Antiman to your Spring 2023 syllabus.
The AAARI Reads Toolkit for Antiman: a Hybrid Memoir is now available!
This Toolkit includes:
- Book Club discussion guide
- Mini-syllabus and recommended reading lists to offer background and context to support various themes and histories represented through the book
- Playlist of musical selections inspired by the places, people, and themes in the book
- Information and resources about, by, and for Indo-Caribbean communities in NYC
- Other writing by and interviews with Rajiv Mohabir
Please fill out the form below to receive your Toolkit.
- Join our AAARI Reads Book Club discussion on Friday, April 28, 2023, from 12pm to 1pm. Bring a friend, your students, a colleague, a family member—all are welcome! Register here.
- Join Rajiv Mohabir for a conversation and book signing at the AAARI Annual Symposium, on Friday, May 12, 2023 at BMCC. (Interested in presenting at the symposium? Learn more here.)
Sponsored by the CUNY Black, Race and Ethnic Studies Initiative (BRESI) Grant
