Writing the Black Canadian City at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century: Dionne Brand’s Toronto and Mairuth Sarsfield’s Montreal

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Title
Writing the Black Canadian City at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century: Dionne Brand’s Toronto and Mairuth Sarsfield’s Montreal
Abstract
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
Études canadiennes/Canadian Studies
Volume
No. 64
Pages
109-122
Date
2008
Language
en
Citation
Siemerling, Winfried. “Writing the Black Canadian City at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century: Dionne Brand’s Toronto and Mairuth Sarsfield’s Montreal.” Études canadiennes/Canadian Studies No. 64 (2008): 109–122.
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