{"id":8312,"date":"2017-07-27T18:42:29","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T22:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.ryerson.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=8312"},"modified":"2024-08-12T13:10:11","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T17:10:11","slug":"jivesh-parasram","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/jivesh-parasram\/","title":{"rendered":"Jivesh Parasram"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Jiv Parasram is an Indo-Caribbean multidisciplinary artist from Dartmouth (Halifax) Nova Scotia. Parasram studied at the University of Toronto where he earned an HBA in Theatre and International Relations. He began graduate studies in the Communication and Culture program run jointly by York and Toronto Metropolitan Universities. Parasram served as the associate artistic director at Theatre Passe Muraille<\/a> in Toronto, and was the co-founder and artistic director of Pandemic Theatre<\/a>, a socio-political theatre collective in Toronto. In 2018 he took on the position of artistic director of Rumble Theatre<\/a> in Vancouver.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Drama<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Take d Milk, Nah?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Toronto: Playwrights Canada Pres, 2021.
PS8631.A7365 T35 2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Jiv is \u201cCanadian. \u201d And \u201cIndian. \u201d And \u201cHindu. \u201d And \u201cWest Indian. \u201d \u201cTrinidadian,\u201d too. Or maybe he\u2019s just colonized. He\u2019s not the \u201cwhite boy\u201d 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\u2014they were pretty sure he wasn\u2019t. He\u2019s not an Arab, and allegedly not a Muslim\u2014at least that\u2019s 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 \u201cEastern Mythology. \u201d And then he had a religious epiphany while delivering a calf in Trinidad. By now, Jiv\u2019s collected a lot of observations about trying to find your place in your world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this funny, fresh, and skeptical take on the identity play, Jivesh Parasram blends personal storytelling and ritual to offer the Hin-dos and Hin-don\u2019ts within the intersections of all of his highly hyphenated cultures. 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\u2014it doesn\u2019t really matter, because we are all Jiv.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Awards and Honours<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

2021 Governor General’s Literary Award, Drama, English language<\/a> (Finalist)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Parasram, Jivesh. “The Only Good Indian.” In Long Story Short: An Anthology of (Mostly) 10-minute Plays<\/em>, edited by Rebecca Burton, 185-196. Toronto: Playwrights Canada Pres, 2016.
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The Only Good Indian: Performance Texts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Presents five versions of performance texts by Jivesh Parasram, Tom Arthur Davis, Donna-Michelle St. Bernard, Justine Shore, and Adele Noronha.
Winnipeg: Scirocco Drama, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The Only Good Indian<\/em> is part lecture, part meditation, and part threat. Or maybe a sacrifice. Each incarnation of The Only Good Indian<\/em> recruits a new artist to step into the radical headspace of a suicide bomber. In turn, each performer straps themselves into a suicide vest \u2014 and struggles to rationalize to the audience such an \u201cirrational\u201d decision. It dissects where our similarities begin and where they end, forcing both the performer and the audience to ask themselves: what would I die for? Blending political theory with dark satire, authors Donna-Michelle St. Bernard, Tom Arthur Davis, Adele Noronha, Jivesh Parasram, and Justine Shore take you on a wild ride through their genealogical relationships to colonization, occupation, otherness, and indigeneity.
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Jivesh Parasram page from the Toronto Theatre Database<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher Playwrights Canada Press<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher Scirocco Drama, an imprint of J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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