103 research outputs found
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. 
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.  
A multi-faceted approach for assessing the safety of Israeli Arab children in their travel to and from school
No full textRoad crashes are considered as one of the main threats to human life around the world. Children pedestrians are most at risk to be seriously injured in road crashes, in particular, those from economically disadvantaged communities. Various factors contribute to their high involvement in road crashes. Some of these factors are related to the characteristics of the children and their parents, while others are related to the physical urban road environment. The share of Arab children in Israel (<15 years old) in pedestrians’ fatalities far exceeds their fraction in their age group. Therefore, effective and immediate measures to increase their safety are required. The present research, a part of a larger ongoing project, proposes a multifaceted approach and applies it to a real case study in the Arab local council of Jadeidi-Makr in Israel. The proposed approach is based on: (1) data collected by means of questionnaires posted to the children and their parents concerning the travel characteristics of the children to school; (2) objective data on the children walking routes collected by GPS-enabled watches; and (3) road safety auditing of the school environment and the main routes to the school. The results of this study found that children’s characteristics, their travel behavioral patterns, their parents' safety perceptions, and the road environment are all significant factors when considering children’s safety as pedestrians. Thus, improvements in the infrastructure, children and parents’ safety awareness, and police enforcement are essential to increase Arab children’s safety. The responsible authorities, decision and policy makers are called to join forces and take immediate actions to realize the suggested improvements in reality
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