How does the author use structure and form to enact his diasporic experience?

Antiman is a hybrid memoir. This means that the text employs a network of different forms and structures. Parts of the text are written in prose. Other parts are presented as lineated or prose poems. Others still present Rajiv's translations of his grandmother's songs. Even those more conventionally narrative sections of the text often take liberties with traditional notions of form and structure. The author's stylistic inventiveness allows him to capture the complexity and the inarticulability of inhabiting a diasporic identity and reality. Rajiv feels that he is living across multiple cultural divides. The memoir's form embodies and enacts this experience by straddling multiple genre divides.

How does the author's tone endear himself to the reader?

Throughout the memoir, Rajiv's tone is at once forthcoming and honest, vulnerable and self-deprecating. The tonal registers Rajiv's...