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Campus Author Recognition Program 2010 Reception
No full textThe Campus Author Recognition Program hosts an annual celebration highlighting the book publishing accomplishments of the University of Guelph community. The 2010 event included talks by Serge Desmarais, Associate Vice-President (Academic); Shani Mootoo, Fall 2010 Writer-in-residence; and Michael Ridley, Chief Librarian and CIO.McLaughlin Library; The University Bookstor
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Shani Mootoo: writing, difference and the Caribbean
No full textAn introduction to the journal is presented in which the author discusses various reports published within the issue including the essays of Donna McCormack on the story of Shani Mootoo's novel "Valmiki's Daughter," one by Rebecca Ashworth on "Cereus Blooms at Night" and one by Emily Taylor on Mootoo's work
Shani Mootoo: Writing, Difference and the Caribbean
No full textAn introduction to the journal is presented in which the author discusses various reports published within the issue including the essays of Donna McCormack on the story of Shani Mootoo's novel "Valmiki's Daughter," one by Rebecca Ashworth on "Cereus Blooms at Night" and one by Emily Taylor on Mootoo's work
Cultural Capital and Transnational Parenting: The Case of Ghanaian Migrants in the United States
No full textWhat does cultural capital mean in a transnational context? In this article, Cati Coe and Serah Shani illustrate through the case of Ghanaian immigrants to the United States that the concept of cultural capital offers many insights into immigrants' parenting strategies, but that it also needs to be refined in several ways to account for the transnational context in which migrants and their children operate. The authors argue that, for many immigrants, the folk model of success means that they seek for their children skills, knowledge, and ways of being in the world that are widely valued in the multiple contexts in which they operate. For Ghanaian migrants, parenting includes using social and institutional resources from Ghana as well as the United States. The multiplicity and contradictions in cultural capital across different social fields complicate their parenting “projects” and raise questions about the reproduction of social class through the intergenerational transmission of cultural capital.Peer reviewe
And She Wrote Backwards: Same-Sex Love, Gender and Identity in Shani Mootoo’s work and her recent Valmiki’s Daughter
No full textThis article traces the representation of love, gender and national
identity in Shani Mootoo’s creative work in general and her most recent
novel Valmiki’s Daughter (2008) in particular. In all her work, Mootoo
describes the phenomenon of otherness as a part of the negotiating
process of the protagonists' selves.Challenging xenophobia, homophobia
and all forms of prejudices the author works with the concept of lesbian
and bisexual love, cross-racial relationships in order to write identity
and to create a home
And She Wrote Backwards: Same-Sex Love, Gender and Identity in Shani Mootoo’s work and her recent Valmiki’s Daughter
No full textThis article traces the representation of love, gender and national identity in Shani Mootoo’s creative work in general and her most recent novel Valmiki’s Daughter (2008) in particular. In all her work, Mootoo describes the phenomenon of otherness as a part of the negotiating process of the protagonists' selves.Challenging xenophobia, homophobia and all forms of prejudices the author works with the concept of lesbian and bisexual love, cross-racial relationships in order to write identity and to create a home
Challenging the Cultural Mosaic: Shani Mootoo\u27s "Out on Main Street"
No full textThe essay examines the short story “Out on Main Street“ (1993) by Caribbean-Canadian author Shani Mootoo as an example of fictional contestations of the official policy of multiculturalism in Canada, which has been a major discourse in the realm of cultural affairs in Canada since the Canadian Multiculturalism Act of 1988. Canadian multiculturalism is often critiqued as a token policy aiming at keeping non-‘white’ Canadians from the ‘white’ cultural center of Canadian society. The discourse of multiculturalism is often conceptualized by the spatial metaphor of the mosaic and thus implies rigid boundaries, in this case between ethno-cultural groups. Mootoo is read here as one among many contemporary non-‘white’ Canadian authors of fiction that draft alternative spatial orders to the cultural mosaic in their texts and thus offer ways of imagining Canadian society differently. 
Archaelogy and history of eighth-century Judah
No full textResumen: Ensayos de un grupo internacional de expertos sobre el antiguo Cercano Oriente y la Biblia hebrea que honran el trabajo pionero de Oded Borowski en la arqueología y la historia del antiguo Israel y Judá. Los colaboradores abordan la cuestión de lo que sabemos del Judá del siglo VIII desde múltiples ángulos, incluyendo un estudio de los vecinos de Judá, la tierra de Judá y sus ciudades, la vida diaria y la cultura material, las creencias y prácticas religiosas, y las primeras formas de lo que ahora son los textos bíblicos. Entre los colaboradores se encuentran Rami Arav, Shawn Zelig Aster, Assaf Avraham, Jeffrey A. Blakely, Sandra Blakely, Elizabeth Bloch-Smith, Efrat Bocher, Erin Darby, Jennie Ebeling, Zev I. Farber, Avraham Faust, Daniel E. Fleming, Yuval Gadot, Kristine Garroway, Seymour Gitin, James W. Hardin, Gilad Itach, Hayah Katz, Reinhard G. Kratz, Joel M. LeMon, Shani Libi, Oded Lipschits, Donald Redford, Christopher Rollston, Bruce Routledge, Yair Sapir, Konrad Schmid, Cynthia Shafer-Elliott, Brent A. Strawn, Andy Vaughn, Jacob L. Wright, y K. Lawson Younger Jr. Características: - Énfasis en la influencia de Asiria en las culturas políticas, religiosas y materiales de Judá; Múltiples modelos para las primeras etapas de la escritura y composición bíblica; Información actualizada sobre tipologías de cerámica
Colonialities in displacement: bodily textures in "Out on main street" (1933) by Shani Mootoo
No full textOs estudos de gênero e a teoria pós-colonial estabeleceram novos paradigmas à perquirição das subjetividades no mundo contemporâneo. No campo dos estudos literários, percebe-se, por exemplo, o crescente número de trabalhos que ora revisitam o cânone ocidental, ora questionam o estatuto do mesmo a partir destas visadas, reelaborando, assim, o que se tem definido por ‘Literatura’, tanto no que tange às vozes autorais tradicionalmente legitimadas, quanto os temas e formas que têm sido privilegiados no decorrer da História. Ao longo deste processo de desconstrução de “verdades” epistêmicas, destaca-se, tanto para a Teoria de Gênero quanto Pós-Colonial, a necessidade de se repensar o papel do corpo na constituição de subjetividades. Assim, este trabalho tem por objetivo analisar, sob uma perspectiva interseccional, o conto “Out on Main Street” (1993) da escritora indocaribenha Shani Mootoo. Acredito que a autora projete textualmente o corpo, trazendo à tona uma crítica das colonialidades de poder e do gênero e seus múltiplos entrecruzamentos na trama social em que a personagem-narradora se vê inserida: da diáspora caribenha. Trabalhos de Aníbal Quijano, Fernanda Belizário, Judith Butler, Leticia Sabsay, entre outros servirão de aporte teórico para esta investigação.Gender Studies and Post-Colonial Theory have presented a shift in paradigms in relation to investigations on subjectivities. In Literary Studies, one can note, for example, the increasing number of works that either revisit the Western canon or question its status through these approaches, re-elaborating what has been defined and understood as Literature, be it in terms of authorship or forms and themes that have been privileged over the course of History. Throughout this process of deconstructing epistemic ‘truths’, the role of the body can be highlighted both for Gender and Post-Colonial theories in an attempt to reconfigure its relationship to the constitution of subjectivity. Therefore, this paper aims at analyzing, under an intersectional approach, the short story “Out on Main Street” (1993) by the Indo-Caribbean writer Shani Mootoo. I believe the author project the body textually, bringing about a critique of the colonialities of power and gender and their multiple interwoven aspects in the social background in which the narrator is inserted: that of the Caribbean Diaspora. Works by Aníbal Quijano, Fernanda Belizário, Judith Butler, Letícia Sabsay, among others will be the theoretical apparatus of this investigation.  
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