CLASSIFICATION
Swallow ID:
6685
Partner Institution:
Simon Fraser University
Source Collection Title:
Shani Mootoo Fonds
Source Collection ID:
MsC 76
Source Collection Description:
Shani Mootoo is known for her work as an artist and writer. She was born in Ireland in 1957, grew up in Trinidad, and has lived in Canada since the early 1980s. Mootoo studied fine arts at the University of Western Ontario where she began to paint and produce video works. She earned a master of fine arts equivalent at the Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver in 1982. Mootoo's collection of short stories Out on Main Street was published in 1993. This was followed in 1996 by her first novel, Cereus Blooms at Night, which was published in fourteen countries and was a finalist for the Giller Prize, the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, and the Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award. In 2001, Mootoo published a collection of poetry, The Predicament of Or. Her second novel, He Drown She in the Sea, was published in May 2005. Mootoo has been a writer in residence at the University of Alberta, at Mills College in Oakland, California, and at the Varuna Writers Residency program in Australia. She has taught writing at the University of Alberta, Capilano College in North Vancouver, the BC Festival of the Arts, and the BC Arts Council. Her visual art and video productions have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Queens Museum, the Vancouver Art Gallery, and the Venice Biennale.
The fonds reflects Mootoo's work as a writer and artist. It contains printed typescripts of published works with drafts and related working papers, published reviews, drafts of unpublished works, lecture notes, professional correspondence, notebooks and sketchbooks, video productions in VHS format, audio materials and works of visual art.
The audio materials in this collection consist of a reading of Mootoo's story, "All in a Day," as well as radio interviews and panels on Vancouver Coop Radio, Radio Centre-Ville in Montreal, and CBC Radio's Writers and Company.
Source Collection Contributing Unit:
SFU Library
Source Collection URI:
https://digital.lib.sfu.ca/unarchiving-margins
Source Collection Image URL:
Series Title:
Unarchiving the Margins Collection
Series Description:
Historically, literary studies and literary-archival work has focused on the stories of white, male writers. As a way of disrupting this narrow focus, the Unarchiving the Margins Collection digitizes, preserves, and brings to life almost 80 tapes of literary audio from the fonds of a diverse set of writers from equity deserving groups.
The digitization and public distribution of this collection amplifies voices of women, queer writers, and writers of colour who have been historically left out of the archive and thus not highlighted in many digitizing projects. SFU is committed to prioritizing projects that promote content by writers from historically underserved groups in order to ensure that more researchers, scholars, and interested members of the public have access to these materials.
Highlights
The Unarchiving the Margins Collection brings together interviews, readings, and discussions featuring hundreds of voices and writers from equity deserving groups, such as: Daphne Marlatt, Nicole Brossard, Maria Campbell, Dorothy Livesay, Phyllis Webb, Lillian Allen, Ellen Tallman, Penn Kemp, Jeanette Armstrong, Betsy Warland, Fred Wah, Shani Mootoo, Sharon Thesen, Mary Billy, Anita Rau Badami, Lorna Crozier, and many more!
The collection also features renowned Canadian male writers, including: George Bowering, Stuart McLean, and bp Nichol.
Visit the SFU Library Special Collections and Rare Books Unarchiving the Margins collection page for more details about this collection.
Series URI:
https://digital.lib.sfu.ca/unarchiving-margins
Sub Series Title:
Shani Mootoo Fonds
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Title:
Interview CBC: Shani Mootoo, George Bowering, David Guterson, Audrey Thomas, and Wayson Choy conversation with Eleanor Wachtel at Arts Club Theatre in February 2003
Title Source:
cassette and j-card
Title Note:
J-card misspells Wayson Choy's name as "Wayson Choi"
Language:
English
Production Context:
Broadcast
Identifiers:
[]
Rights
Rights:
Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)
CREATORS
Name:
Wachtel, Eleanor
Dates:
1947-
Notes:
host
Name:
Mootoo, Shani
Dates:
1957-
Notes:
interviewee
Name:
Bowering, George
Dates:
1935-
Notes:
interviewee
Name:
Guterson, David
Dates:
1956
Notes:
interviewee
Name:
Thomas, Audrey
Dates:
1935-
Notes:
interviewee
Name:
Choy, Wayson
Dates:
1939-
Notes:
Last name misspelled as "Choi" on j-card; interviewee
CONTRIBUTORS
MATERIAL DESCRIPTION
Image:
Recording Type:
Analogue
AV Type:
Audio
Material Designation:
Cassette
Physical Composition:
Magnetic Tape
Extent:
1/8 inch
Tape Brand:
Fuji
Sound Quality:
Excellent
Physical Condition:
good
Other Physical Description:
Black and white clear jewel case with J-card
DIGITAL FILE DESCRIPTION
Channel Field:
Stereo
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T00:31:43
Size:
37.7MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Channel Field:
Stereo
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T00:31:42
Size:
37.5MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Dates
Date:
2003-02
Type:
Publication Date
Source:
J-card
LOCATION
Address:
1585 Johnston Street, Vancouver BC V6H 3R9
Venue:
Arts Club Theatre, Granville Island
Latitude:
49.27213
Longitude:
-123.13443
CONTENT
NOTES
Type:
General
Note:
Side A and B a continuous recording of a panel discussion with George Bowering, Wayson Choi, David Guterson, Shani Mootoo, Audrey Thomas; conversation loosely focused on “home”
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