"A Garden of Her Own": Caribbean-Canadian Spaces and Identities in Shard Mootoo's Fiction.

The article explores how Shani Mootoo negotiates a sense of belonging tied to the land first in Canada and then in the fictional Caribbean setting of Paradise in Lantanacamara. The literatures including Mootoo's "Cereus Blooms at Night" and "A Garden of Her Own," from the collection "Out on Main Street" engages in the issue whether it conservatively articulates a desire for home and it radically challenges traditional identity constructs. It pointed out that Mootoo's work questions how people think of identity in relation to space and how one seek to construct a revised sense of space without the definitively located discourses that existed within the colonial nation.