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Take d milk, nah? / Jivesh Parasram ; co-created with Tom Arthur Davis and Graham Isador.

by Parasram, Jivesh.

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Playwrights Canada Press, 2021.

Canadian drama -- 21st century.

9780369100986 (livre de poche)

Alternate title:

Take the milk, nah?

xiv, 104 p. ; 20 cm.

Finalist for the 2021 Governor General's Award for English-Language Drama.

"Jiv is "Canadian." And "Indian." And "Hindu." And "West Indian." "Trinidadian," too. Or maybe he's just colonized. He's not the "white boy" he was teased as within his immigrant household. Especially since his Nova Scotian neighbours seemed to think he was Black. Except for the Black people -- they were pretty sure he wasn't. He's not an Arab, and allegedly not a Muslim -- at least that's what he started claiming after 9/11. Whatever he is, the public education system was able to offer him the chance to learn about his culture from a coffee-table book on "Eastern Mythology." And then he had a religious epiphany while delivering a calf in Trinidad. By now, Jiv's collected a lot of observations about trying to find your place in your world. This story asks the gut-punching questions: What divides us? Who is served by the constructs of cultural identity? And what are we willing to accept in the desire to belong? Then again--it doesn't really matter, because we are all Jiv."--From publisher.

Canadian drama.

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