• R.Christobel Merlin Mahil

Caribbean Asian writers play a vital role in displaying colonial history, racial hybridity, migration, love, longing, and guilt. They continue their ongoing exploration of history and its lingering effects on the present. Dabydeen is a prolific author of poetry, prose and novels serves as Poet Laureate of Ottawa explores under the category of racial identity, ethnic culture in realistic concept. The novel Dark Swirl draws on raw material from the author’s childhood and youth in the Caribbean island. The novel also depicts the scanty population living on the coast or on the banks of the rivers consists of Negroes, indentured labour, brought from India, and some native Indians. This study attempts to highlight certain details of harmony with the abundant animal life found in the rivers and forests in the form of alligators, fish of innumerable species, reptiles, insects and colourfully plumed birds.

Massacouraman, Creek, Indo-Guyanese migration

"Dehumanization: A social realism in Cyril Dabydeen’s DarkSwirl", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.687-692, May-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905K94.pdf

"Dehumanization: A social realism in Cyril Dabydeen’s DarkSwirl", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp687-692, May-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905K94.pdf