Where Are You Really From? Raman Mundair's Poetic Resistance to Asian-British Cultural Objectification

Raman Mundair's poetry interrogates the cultural and political tensions between subject object, powerfully contributes to canon of transformative Black British writing in early twenty-first century. Her collections confront scenes racism interrogate possibility a genuinely multicultural Britain, as she grapples with some ugly complexities has faced first-generation South Asian migrant UK, particularly through signifier skin visual benchmark against which self-identity is constructed. Mundair tells stories new generation Britons, for whom accent are less significant than intellect voice, constraints history will eventually become distant memory.