TY  - JOUR
A1  - Helff, Sissy
A1  - Dalal, Sanghamitra
T1  - And she wrote backwards: same-sex love, gender and identity in Shani Mootoo’s work and her recent Valmiki’s Daughter
T2  - Coolabah
N2  - 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 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.
KW  - Valmiki’s Daughter
KW  - poetry
KW  - video
KW  - storytelling
KW  - identity
KW  - cosmopolitanism
KW  - lesbianism
KW  - belonging
Y1  - 2012
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/53508
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-535087
UR  - https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15642
SN  - 1988-5946
N1  - Copyright © Sissy Helff and Sanghamitra Dalal 2012 This text may be archived and redistributed both in electronic form and in hard copy, provided that the author and journal are properly cited and no fee is charged
VL  - 9
SP  - 48
EP  - 58
PB  - Universitat de Barcelona
CY  - Barcelona
ER  -