Burns, Lorna (2011) Politicising paradise: Shani Mootoo's "Cereus blooms at night". Journal of West Indian Literature, 19 (2). pp. 52-67. ISSN 0258-8501

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Abstract

This article explores the regenerative force of landscape in the postcolonial Caribbean imagination. Exploring Shani Mootoo's novel Cereus Blooms at Night, I expose the ways in which literary representations of the natural world continue to mask socio-political prejudices (particularly questions of sexuality).

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	This article explores the regenerative force of landscape in the postcolonial Caribbean imagination. Exploring Shani Mootoo's novel Cereus Blooms at Night, I expose the ways in which literary representations of the natural world continue to mask socio-political prejudices (particularly questions of sexuality).
Keywords:	Caribbean literature, Shani Mootoo, Cereus Blooms at Night, postcolonial ecocriticism
Subjects:	Q Linguistics, Classics and related subjects > Q320 English Literature
Divisions:	College of Arts > Faculty of Media, Humanities & Performance > Lincoln School of Humanities
Depositing User:	Users 3003 not found.
Date Deposited:	04 Apr 2012 14:41
Last Modified:	04 Apr 2012 14:41
URI:	http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/id/eprint/5007

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