185 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
Chronaxie Measurements in Patterned Neuronal Cultures from Rat Hippocampus.
No full textExcitation of neurons by an externally induced electric field is a long standing question that has recently attracted attention due to its relevance in novel clinical intervention systems for the brain. Here we use patterned quasi one-dimensional neuronal cultures from rat hippocampus, exploiting the alignment of axons along the linear patterned culture to separate the contribution of dendrites to the excitation of the neuron from that of axons. Network disconnection by channel blockers, along with rotation of the electric field direction, allows the derivation of strength-duration (SD) curves that characterize the statistical ensemble of a population of cells. SD curves with the electric field aligned either parallel or perpendicular to the axons yield the chronaxie and rheobase of axons and dendrites respectively, and these differ considerably. Dendritic chronaxie is measured to be about 1 ms, while that of axons is on the order of 0.1 ms. Axons are thus more excitable at short time scales, but at longer time scales dendrites are more easily excited. We complement these studies with experiments on fully connected cultures. An explanation for the chronaxie of dendrites is found in the numerical simulations of passive, realistically structured dendritic trees under external stimulation. The much shorter chronaxie of axons is not captured in the passive model and may be related to active processes. The lower rheobase of dendrites at longer durations can improve brain stimulation protocols, since in the brain dendrites are less specifically oriented than axonal bundles, and the requirement for precise directional stimulation may be circumvented by using longer duration fields
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.  
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