21. Shani Mootoo - Biography shani mootoo was born in Ireland in 1958 and raised in Trinidad. She moved to Canada at the age of 19 where she began a career as a visual artist and filmmaker. http://www.ucalgary.ca/~kdmulatz/bio.html

Shani Mootoo was born in Ireland in 1958 and raised in Trinidad. She moved to Canada at the age of 19 where she began a career as a visual artist and filmmaker. An abused childhood led Mootoo to stop using words for many, many years and thus she turned to a career that focused on the visual. Finally, after confronting her past, Mootoo returned to words and wrote her first collection of short stories entitled Out on Main Street . Her second book, Cereus Blooms at Night , is her first novel. "Mootoo is delighted to be called a 'Canadian' writer, although she was born in Ireland, raised in Trinidad and is of East Indian ancestry. The last thing she wants is to be known as is an Indo-Trinidadian-Irish-Canadian-lesbian writer" (Mootoo quoted by Gessell). She has also been careful not to label her writing as lesbian writing for fear of alienating potential customers disturbed by the political connotations of the word lesbian. Mootoo focuses on issues of authenticity and identity in both of her written works. She "exposes the uncertainty of the hybrid individual" and "she explores a variety of situations in which her characters are pressed to display a prescribed cultural authenticity both by individuals putatively from within the same culture and from those who are clearly outsiders" (Dias) Works Cited Dias, Candice. "Shani Mootoo." http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/Bahri/Mootoo.html

22. Booklist: August 1998 My Year in the NoMan's-Bay. Kelton, Elmer. The Smiling Country. mootoo, shani.Cereus Blooms at Night. Perry, Phyllis Alesia. Stigmata. Powell, Patricia. http://www.ala.org/booklist/v94/new-aug.html

Reviews from Booklist Includes reviews from the August 1998 issue of Booklist Adult Books Books for Youth Audiovisual Media Reference Materials Books for Adult Hot List: Nonfiction Ladies' Home Journal: 100 Most Important Women of the 20th Century. Rubin, Bonnie Miller. Fifty on Fifty: Wisdom, Inspiration, and Reflections on Lives Well Lived. Williams, Juan. Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary. Hot List: Fiction Grimes, Martha. The Stargazey. Harrison, Jim. The Road Home. Kingsolver, Barbara. The Poisonwood Bible. Krantz, Judith. The Jewels of Tessa Kent. Legends: Stories by the Masters of Modern Fantasy. Ed. by Robert Silverberg. Minot, Susan. Evening. Trevanian. Incident at Twenty-Mile. General Fiction Danticat, Edwidge. The Farming of Bones. Gordon, Neil. The Gun Runner's Daughter. Handke, Peter. My Year in the No-Man's-Bay. Kelton, Elmer. The Smiling Country. Mootoo, Shani. Cereus Blooms at Night. Perry, Phyllis Alesia. Stigmata. Powell, Patricia. The Pagoda. Schwartz, John Burnham. Reservation Road. Christian Fiction Fischer, John. Ashes on the Wind. Hicks, Barbara Jean.

23. Shani Mootoo - Feministische Phantastisch-utopische Literatur Translate this page shani mootoo. Biographie, Auszeichnungen, Links, Artikel, Interviews, feministischephantastisch-utopische Werke. shani mootoo (1958- ), Kanada. http://www.feministische-sf.de/einzelne_autorinnen/fsf_shani-mootoo.html

Mail Umfrage Home AutorInnen ... Z Shani Mootoo (1958- ), Kanada Out on Main Street . Mootoo lebt heute in Vancouver und New York. Q: Shani Mootoo Website , ehemalige Website des Canadian Living Bookclub unter http://www.canadianliving.com/bookclub/bookclub8.htm Webseiten zu Shani Mootoo: Shani Mootoo Website von Candice Dias Romane: Seitenanfang

24. Shani Mootoo Work shani mootoo Work. A Paddle and a Compass (with Wendy Oberlander) (1992)(F) Available from Filmmakers Cooperative. shani mootoo. http://vax.wcsu.edu/~mccarney/fva/MootooS_work.html

Shani Mootoo Work A Paddle and a Compass (with Wendy Oberlander (F) Available from Filmmakers Cooperative Shani Mootoo

25. Cereus Blooms At Night Shani Mootoo Modern Fiction Fiction General Cereus Blooms at Night shani mootoo Modern fiction Fiction General. Subject Modernfiction Fiction General Title Cereus Blooms at Night Author shani mootoo. http://www.my-scifi.co.uk/Shani-Mootoo-Cereus-Blooms-at-Night-0001055607.html

Cereus Blooms at Night Shani Mootoo Modern fiction Fiction General Subject: Modern fiction Fiction General Title: Cereus Blooms at Night Author: Shani Mootoo Peter Curry Trains and Planes... Peter Curry Cars and Vans... Peter Curry Trucks and Diggers... Peter Curry Ten Sleepy Bunnies... ... Besch Werner, Reichmann Oska...

26. LiTTerair Shani Mootoo LiTTerair shani mootoo Een roman die in 1998 vooraf vaak werd genoemd als kanshebberop een nominatie voor de Booker Prize, was Cereus Blooms at Night van http://www.biblioweb.nl/auteurs/mootoo.htm

27. Cereus Blooms At Night : Novel By Shani Mootoo - Indian Women Online CEREUS BLOOMS AT NIGHT Novel By shani mootoo There is something about shani mootoo'splayful style that keeps us glued to the story of Mala Ramchandin, the http://www.indianwomenonline.com/womenhome/leisure/bookpage/newbook/bookreview.a

Home Book Page HELPLINES Business Dev. Ask the Chef Get That Job! Intimate Talk Money Manager Savvy Travelling Yoga Guru Vedic Astrology A Healthy Body A Woman's World Account ... Your own Webstore Print This Article CEREUS BLOOMS AT NIGHT By Shani Mootoo There is something about Shani Mootoo's playful style that keeps us glued to the story of Mala Ramchandin, the mysterious old woman at the rest home who may or may not have committed a terrible crime. Mootoo uses magic realism, employed by such celebrated authors as Isabelle Allende and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, to hoist you into a tornado of madness and psychological depravity. Tyler, her sensitive gay caretaker at the nursing home, eccentric lover who woke up only once a month to send food to her via her son, her cruel father who took us to the revolting depths of incest, and vanished lesbian mother, take us to a fictitious Caribbean Island and damp world, Paradise, Lantanacamara. The novel's central symbol is the gorgeous white flowered cereus plant, which blooms only at night and weaves into the life of our protagonist who too feels safe only in the wombs of darkness

28. Feminist SFF & Utopia: Reviews: Shani Mootoo http://www.feministsf.org/femsf/reviews/mootoo.s.html

Mario Savio , Dec. 1964 information and some anti-war organizations: actagainstwar.org internationalanswer.org iraqbodycount.net moveon.org ... womeninblack.net news sources: indymedia.org london guardian HOME CHECKLIST ... SEARCH Reviews: Shani Mootoo Cereus Blooms at Night (1996, Press Gang Publishers, Canada; 1998, Grove Press, New York.) 1997 Tiptree short-list. Don't say I didn't warn you. Cereus Blooms at Night ain't exactly science fiction. Magical realism is even stretching it a bit, because there just isn't that much magic. But there's ju-u-ust enough to slip it in to this list, which I'm doing because I want more people to read Shani Mootoo's magical prose. Especially those of you interested in gender issues (and really, why else are you on this web site?). Cereus is set on a fictional Caribbean island with a madwoman, a queer transvestite (well, two), and a tragic life story. Enjoy. lq, 5/18/99 HOME CHECKLIST anthologies lists ... SEARCH We welcome your comments, suggestions, and offers of assistance

29. Feminist SFF & Utopia: Theme & Character Lists: Women Of Color Protagonists the land); Le Guin, Ursula K. The Telling (2000) (IndoCanadian protagonist);mootoo, shani. Cereus Blooms at Night; Marge Piercy's http://www.feministsf.org/femsf/bibs/wofcolorpro.html

There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all! Mario Savio , Dec. 1964 information and some anti-war organizations: actagainstwar.org internationalanswer.org iraqbodycount.net moveon.org ... womeninblack.net news sources: indymedia.org london guardian HOME CHECKLIST ... SEARCH This page lists works with women of color as protagonists. Not all these works are written by women of color, and some may be problematic in their depictions of women of color. see also Index to Women SF Writers of Color Black Women in Science Fiction (on tv) Amadahy, Zainab. The Moons of Palmares Anthony, Patricia. "White Boy" in Eating Memories Benford, Gregory.

30. PSH Webstore: Predicament Of Or, Shani Mootoo Predicament of Or shani mootoo. Rain on the roof Humans sighed Wavesbroke Salt gnawed the concrete foundation © shani mootoo, 2001. http://www.poets.ca/pshstore/cata2/mootoo.htm

Search: Browse Store General (2002) General (2001) General (2000) Anthologies Award Winners Biographies Chapbooks For Children Classics Concrete Cont.Favourite Dub Gift Shop Haiku Language Lit. Criticism Resource Translation Women About The Store Shipping Security Foreign Currency ... General $CAN 18.95 Quantity Predicament of Or Shani Mootoo Celebrated novelist Shani Mootoo, author of the award- winning Cereus Blooms at Night , turns her hand to poetry in a nuanced and lively exploration of desire, identity and personal exile. In haunting and astonishing language, shot through with the speech and rhythms of her native Trinidad, Mootoo walks a breathtaking tightrope between cultures and identities, between geographical locations, between memory and desire. In a set of bittersweet love poems, she tenderly exposes the contradictions in loving another woman; in a series of exhilarating riffs on language and the effects of colonization, she marries English words to Trinidadian intonation. Here are poems equally lush and philosophical, sensual and startling, spilling forth meaning from experience like blood-red seeds from a pomegranate. Polestar Press Review The Predicament of Or by Shani Mootoo Reviewed by Kerri Leigh Huffman Shani Mootoo has managed to create a book of inherently political poetry without being didactic or obvious. Primarily about the inextricable link between identity and language

31. SHANI MOOTOO: CEREUS BLOOMS AT NIGHT Angels and insects. CEREUS BLOOMS AT NIGHT shani mootoo (Press Gang)This first novel from a West Coast writer born in Ireland and http://www.canoe.ca/JamBooksReviewsC/cereus_mootoo.html

Inside CANOE.CA SLAM! Sports Jam! Showbiz AllPop CNEWS Webfin Money C-Health Lifewise AUTONET.CA Newsstand Travel Search eBay.ca Get away today 411 online Free E-Mail Shop.canoe.ca CareerConnection Classified Extra Match Contact Obituaries Today Restaurants Hotels Weather Horoscopes Lotteries Crossword Scoreboard News Ticker Biz Ticker Sports Ticker TV Listings Movie Listings CLIVE Concerts Mutual Funds Stocks Feedback Index Sunday, October 26, 1997 More Showbiz headlines Angels and insects CEREUS BLOOMS AT NIGHT Shani Mootoo (Press Gang) This first novel from a West Coast writer born in Ireland and raised in Trinidad is a pleasure to read, quite an achievement in a novel that at times threatens to veer dangerously close to what I'm afraid I find annoyingly fanciful magic realism. There is something about Shani Mootoo's playful style that keeps us glued to the story of Mala Ramchandin, the mysterious old woman at the rest home who may or may not have committed a terrible crime. Her caretaker, a gentle gay man named Tyler, her eccentric lover, her lover's son who is a girl, her cruel father and her vanished lesbian mother populate a novel suffused with tropical dampness in the imaginary town of Paradise, Lantanacamara. Everything melts in the heat and rots and still grows two feet a day. The novel's central symbol is the gorgeous white flowered cereus plant, which blooms only at night and has two smells a vanilla-like sweetness and a horrible curdling. This is much like Mala, born with fragrant hope and doomed to a life of blood, madness and decomposition. Cereus Blooms at Night is like the garden of Eden, except clogged with insects. It is full of glistening snail trails, moths, lizard eggs, wood lice and daddy long-legs, but none of these creepy crawlies would matter if human tragedy could be kept at bay.

32. Mootoo.htm Public reading by writer shani mootoo to take place on Oct. 21 SACKVILLE,NB A public reading by writer and visual artist shani http://www.mta.ca/publications/university/mootoo.htm

Public reading by writer Shani Mootoo to take place on Oct. 21 SACKVILLE, NB A public reading by writer and visual artist Shani Mootoo will be held on the Mount Allison University campus on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 1998 from 4 to 5 p.m. in the Owens Art Gallery. Admission is free and the event is open to the public. Shani Mootoo was born in Ireland, grew up in Trinidad, and currently divides her time between Vancouver and Brooklyn, NY. In addition to being a video producer and internationally-exhibited visual artist, she has published poetry, a collection of short stories entitled Out on Main Street, and a novel, Cereus Blooms at Night. The latter, published by Press Gang in 1996, was nominated for the 1997 Giller Prize and will be published internationally in 1998 by Granta Books (in the UK), Grove Press (in the USA), and in translation in Germany, Holland, Spain, Sweden, and Norway. The reading is sponsored by Mount Allison's English Department, with the assistance of the Canada Council. For further information, please contact:

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37. Women's Studies 2K06E: Body / Talk Obasan (Penguin) mootoo, shani. Cereus Blooms at Night (McClelland and Stuart)Oliver, Mary. The Yellow Wallpaper” (Online) 11.11 mootoo, shani. http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~womensst/2k06e.html

September 2002 - April 2003 Professor: Dr. Grace Kehler Office Hours: TBA CNH 208, 525-9140, ext. 23723 E-mail: kehlerg@mcmaster.ca (WARNING: I am an unreliable e-mail user!) Texts: Bookstore Custom Courseware Package (CC) Kogawa, Joy. Obasan (Penguin) Mootoo, Shani. Cereus Blooms at Night (McClelland and Stuart) Oliver, Mary. Dream Work (Atlantic Monthly) Library Online http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/butler/truth.html http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/ellis/womeneng.html Matuschka. Official website. http://www.matuschka.net/ Photographs: Ruined Series, Special Prints, Covers, New Works 2002 http://www.songster.net/projects/matuschka/matuschka_beauty.html Mfon Essien. Photographs. http://www.artthrob.co.za/00jun/images/mfon01a.jpg Prince, Mary. History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/prince/prince.html http://www.uoregon.edu/~nateich/transformation.html http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/webster/portraits.html http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/ReadingRoom/Nonfiction/VindicationofRights/

38. Canadian Literature: Current Reviews MooreGilbert, Bart (Ed.), Writing India 1757-1990 The Literature of British India.mootoo, shani, Cereus Blooms at Night. mootoo, shani, The Predicament of Or. http://www.canlit.ca/reviews/a5.html

Upcoming Book Reviews: M-O Author Title M MacDonald , Ann-Marie MacDonald , D.L., Buss, Helen M., and McWhir, Anne (Eds.) Mary Wollstonecraft amd Mary Shelley: Writing Lives Macdonald , Judy Jane , Nicole Marie Carduner, Fille du Roy MacIntyre , Linden The Long Stretch MacIvor , Daniel Monster Maclachlan , Morag and Suttles, Wayne The Fort Langley Journals, 1827-30 MacLean , Rory The Oatmeal Ark: Across Canada by Water MacLeod , Alistair No Great Mischief Mbembe , Achille On the Postcolony MacLeod , Joan McCaslin , Susan Altering Eye, The McCaslin , Susan Flying Wounded McGrath , Wendy Common Place Ecstasies McNamara , Eugene Waterfalls Maddison , Stephen Fags, Hags, and Queer Sisters: Gender Dissent and Heterosocial Bonds in Gay Culture

39. Canadian Literature: Review Home Free? . shani mootoo Cereus Blooms at Night. Press Gang $18.95Order It! Constance Rooke Writing Home A PEN Canada Anthology. http://www.canlit.ca/reviews/unassigned/640_saul.html

"Home Free?" Shani Mootoo Cereus Blooms at Night . Press Gang $18.95 Order It! Constance Rooke Writing Home: A PEN Canada Anthology Order It! Reviewed by Joanne Saul Home in Shani Mootoo's first novel, Cereus Blooms at Night (nominated for a Giller Prize), is a fictional island in the Caribbean called Lantanacamara. In this novel, Mootoo explores the intense sense of homelessness that accompanies a history of colonial dispossession and exile. The main characters in the book are descendants of Indian indentured workers who convert to Christianity with the "encouragement" of Christian missionaries from the aptly-named metropolis, the Northern Shivering Wetlands. Although the movement to and from the colonial "centre" recurs throughout much of the novel, the multiple levels of the story unfold in a small town ironically called Paradise. The primary narrator of the novel, Tyler, a nurse at the Paradise Alms House, tells us his purpose in setting down events is to try to reach Asha Ramchandin, last heard of in Canada. As the novel progresses, the story of Mala, Asha's sister, slowly and luxuriously unfolds. Mootoo uses a self-conscious narrator, Tyler, in order to remind the reader of the pitfalls of omniscience, and of the difficulties of "fashioning a single garment out of myriad parts." However, the narrative tends to shift rather unconvincingly, so that it is not always clear from where Tyler gathers his "myriad parts."

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