Jazz, Diaspora, and the History and Writing of Black Anglophone Montreal

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Title
Jazz, Diaspora, and the History and Writing of Black Anglophone Montreal
Abstract
The author examines Black English-speaking Montreal's cultural geography, which includes Montreal's jazz age between the 1920s and the 1950s, but she also briefly outlines Black Montreal's earlier history. Noting how Black Montrealers were either ignored or peripherally mentioned by non-Black authors writing about the city, she focuses how Black Anglophone writers, including Mairuth Sarsfield's 1997 historical novel, No Crystal Stair, and Ernest Tucker's 2006 crime novel, Lost Boundaries, portray Black Anglophone history and culture in the city.
Book Title
Critical Collaborations : Indigeneity, Diaspora, and Ecology in Canadian Literary Studies
Place
Waterloo, ON
Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Date
2014
Pages
199-214
Language
en
ISBN
978-1-55458-911-1
Citation
Siemerling, Winfried. “Jazz, Diaspora, and the History and Writing of Black Anglophone Montreal.” In Critical Collaborations : Indigeneity, Diaspora, and Ecology in Canadian Literary Studies, edited by Smaro Kamboureli and Christl Verduyn, 199–214. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2014.
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