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Disappearance Book
In his second novel, Disappearance, the prize-winning Guyanese poet David Dabydeen provides a richly layered poetic evocation of landscape and history, memory and change. Telling the story of a brief relationship between a young Guyanese engineer and the old woman he lodges with while building sea defences for a cliff-top village near Hastings, the novel uses metaphors of building and architecture to explore not only the experience of empire, but also the fragility of all imperial monuments to withstand the "timeless barrenness" of the land and the impermanence of memory, whether in the Caribbean, Africa or in England. Dabydeen's concern with the connections between the "monstrosity" of imperialism and its "nostalgia for the monumental" with how people use rituals of commemoration … read more...
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