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UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES
Cave Hill Campus, P.O. Box 64, Bridgetown, Barbados
FACULTY OF HUMANITIES
November 19, 2008
DEPARTMENT OF LANGUAGE, LINGUISTICS AND LITERATURE
Symposium: The Writing of Shani Mootoo
Program
10.00-10.15 Welcome and Introduction of Participants
Jane Bryce (Head of Department)
10.15-11.00 “New Outlines for the Possible: Sexuality and the Politics of
Difference in Shani Mootoo's fiction”
Alison Donnell (Reading University)
11.00-11.15 Coffee
11.15-12.00 “Bearing Witness: Aftermaths of Trauma in Mootoo's
Fictions”
Paula Morgan (UWI, St Augustine)
12.00-12.45 "(Un)manacle Sexuality! Emergence of the Queer
Bildungsroman in Cereus Blooms at Night.
Eddie Whyte (UWI, Mona)
12.45-2.00 Lunch
2.00-2.45 “Skeletons in the Closet: Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night and
Dionne Brand’s At the Full and Change of the Moon”
Evelyn O’Callaghan (UWI, Cave Hill)
2.45-3.30 "Narratives of Crossing: the Ethics and Aesthetics of
Encounters-across-difference in Shani Mootoo’s texts."
Denise deCaires Narain (University of Sussex)
3.30-3.45 Coffee
3. 45-5.00
Discussion with Shani Mootoo
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