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The Black Atlantic Reconsidered: Black Canadian Writing, Cultural History, and the Presence of the Past
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The Black Atlantic Reconsidered: Black Canadian Writing, Cultural History, and the Presence of the Past
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Abstract |
The author offers a critical account of more than two centuries of Black Canadian writing that ranges from eighteenth-century autobiographical narratives of Black Loyalist preachers to contemporary novels, poetry, plays, and non-fiction by Black Anglophone and Francophone writers. The author discusses Mairuth Sarsfield’s novel No Crystal Stair (1997), 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.
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Montreal and Kingston
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McGill-Queen's University Press
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Date |
2015
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xiv-545p.
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Language |
en
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978-0-7735-4507-6
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Citation |
Siemerling, Winfried. The Black Atlantic Reconsidered: Black Canadian Writing, Cultural History, and the Presence of the Past. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2015.
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