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May 107).Īt the same time, by naming the town Paradise, and focusing much of thenovel on the main character Mala’s walled garden within Paradise, Mootoois clearly toying with cliches of the Caribbean as a lost Eden, a pastoral idyll (Vivian M. In setting the novel on a fictional, nonspecific Caribbean island,rather than on Trinidad where she grew up, Mootoo follows in the footsteps ofother Caribbean women writers who have found a critical utility in crafting animaginary space from which to remember identities and histories differently (Vivian M.Colonized by the“Shivering Northern Wetlands” (Vivian M. Cereus Blooms at Night, Shani Mootoo’s 1996 novel, is set in the town ofParadise on the imaginary Caribbean island Lantanacamara.Cereus Blooms at Night, published in 1996, is her first novel.

Out on Main Street, published in 1993, is a collection of short stories.

Finally acknowledging and naming her experience of abuse prompted Mootoo to return to words, and write her first collection of short stories.

A skilled multimedia artist and filmmaker.born in Ireland in 1958 and raised in Trinidad.