Pushing limits : queer identity and the politics of nomenclature in Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night

Mridula Chakrabarty

Pushing limits : queer identity and the politics of nomenclature in Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night

Mridula Chakrabarty

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Abstract

My argument in this chapter is that just as "[n]either Trinidad, Canada, nor diaspora provides an adequate context for understanding" contemporary Caribbean-Canadian diasporic writing (Brydon 94), similarly no singular theory of sex, gender, or queer relations is adequate enough to contain Mootoo's ambit of imaginative sexual territories that encompass colonialism and its aftermath within an ambitious throw and capture of revolutionary eroticism in this novel.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Sexuality and Contemporary Literature
Editors	Joel Gwynne, Angelia Poon
Place of Publication	U.S.A.
Publisher	Cambria Press
Pages	105-126
Number of pages	21
ISBN (Print)	9781604978247
Publication status	Published - 2012

Keywords

gender
postcolonialism
sexuality

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Pushing limits : queer identity and the politics of nomenclature in Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night

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