Contested “Places” and Conflicted Nexuses in Gloria Naylor's Linden Hills and Mairuth Sarsfield's No Crystal Stair

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Contested “Places” and Conflicted Nexuses in Gloria Naylor's Linden Hills and Mairuth Sarsfield's No Crystal Stair
Abstract
The author notes that Gloria Naylor's Linden Hills and Mairuth Sarsfield's No Crystal Stair affirm African Americans' and African Canadians' fortitude at nexuses of resistance and oppression in the United States and Canada through portrayals of characters who refuse to allow their marginalized racial, class, and gender belongings to limit them, and who defiantly enact their ascendant aspirations. Mairuth Sarsfield’s novel No Crystal Stair (1997) is set in Montreal’s oldest Black community – St. Antoine District – in the 1940s. The original Black inhabitants of this district were railroad porters and redcaps who moved there in the nineteenth century.
Publication
Canadian Review of American Studies
Volume
Vol. 48
Issue
no. 2
Pages
210-230
Date
Summer 2018
Language
en
Citation
Green, Kim. “Contested ‘Places’ and Conflicted Nexuses in Gloria Naylor’s Linden Hills and Mairuth Sarsfield’s No Crystal Stair.” Canadian Review of American Studies Vol. 48, no. 2 (Summer 2018): 210–230.
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