And She Wrote Backwards: Same-Sex Love, Gender and Identity in Shani Mootoo’s work and her recent Valmiki’s Daughter

And She Wrote Backwards: Same-Sex Love, Gender and Identity in Shani Mootoo’s work and her recent Valmiki’s Daughter

This 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 pro...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Sissy Helff, Sanghamitra Dalal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universitat de Barcelona 2012-11-01
Series:Coolabah
Subjects:
Valmiki’s Daughter
poetry
video
storytelling
identity
cosmopolitanism
lesbianism
belonging
Online Access:http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15642/18759

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http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15642/18759

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