summonings

Indebted to the docupoetics tradition, Raena Shirali’s summonings investigates the ongoing practice of witch (“ daayan” ) hunting in India. Here, poems interrogate the political implications & shortcomings of writing Subaltern personae while acknowledging the author’s Westernized positionality. Continuing to explore multi-national and intersectional concerns around identity raised in her debut collection, Shirali asks how first- & second-generation immigrants reconcile the self with the lin...