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I shall focus only on those Caribbean-Canadian writers who have taken the Canadian urban environment as source and material of their creative work 1. I would like to highlight some of their similarities as well as a few general perspectives. This is why I have chosen to focus on the city as it is developped in Caribbean-Canadian short stories: It will then be easier to understand how the cityscape provides the opportunity to recompose the inner and aesthetic space, mapping out new territories for the self.

If his most well-known work is his Toronto Trilogy, his short stories also project to the foreground the same migrant characters. All his most recently published works are books of short stories in which he depicts the Canadian city as offering the highest rate possible of solitude, discrimination and hate 2. Emigration clearly appears to be a burden, even if it was willingly chosen — an exile one can never reconcile oneself with. In the first group are those whom the city has failed, whose experience of Toronto is of exclusion, poverty and loss There are degrees of deracination and assimilation of course, but a typical Clarke protagonist of this group embraces white values and attitudes that erase his black distinctiveness for a wannabe whiteness.

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And while some measure of material or social success may result, the consequences of inauthenticity are usually devastating. A good number of his characters represent the powerless, the colonised, the exiled.

The only sound that comes from the larger group of people going down into the subway is the hurrying pounding of heels on the clean, granite steps and the rubbing of hands on the squeaking rails, polished like chrome. More people are coming up out of the subway at greater speed as if they are fleeing the smell of something unwholesome.

In "The Collector" 5 , Nick, another Barbadian, collects empty bottles in order to earn a coin or two. He scours the wastegrounds of the city and knows all its dirt, thus symbolically pointing to the idea that collecting garbage is all that is left for immigrants to do: He found them in laneways, parking lots and garbage cans …. Others, on the contrary, struggle against victimization by an overblown desire to assimilate to white society and values, even at the risk of jeopardising their Black identity. Jefferson will finally manage to buy the house of his dreams, but only to realise that his neighbours believe him to be the gardener!

But here, the motif of the house is important enough for us to stop and examine it more closely. The house, or the apartment, in Caribbean-Canadian fiction, often offers a concrete image of what it can be like to have emigrated from the Caribbean to Canada. May dreams that she will one day be able to "upgrade her life in the city… invest in the future" 75 , but she fears being fired before she has made a woman of herself.

So she tries to keep a low profile, she almost blends in with the furniture. She is reduced to forging a borrowed identity for herself, that does not fit her. She had run her fingers over the designer dresses that filled one closet. She had touched, had opened, re-touched and had sampled more than three vials of perfumes She tried on the polka-dotted blue silk dress a second time, and was convinced that she looked much better in it than her. And with this, she possessed it in her mind; felt that it belonged to her Monica works at several houses, including Ms Galahad's:.

It is in no way an exceptional house. A roof of green shingles slipping at the edges. Living room, dining room, kitchen. A yard out back the size of a grave. In "Blossom — Priestess of Oya, Goddess of Winds, Storms and Waterfalls" 10 , the eponymous character is also a new immigrant in Toronto and also works as a domestic in order to survive. Blossom makes her struggle against sexual and racial discrimination heard loud and clear following her employer's attempts to rape her:.

The next day Blossom show up on Balmoral with a placard saying the Dr. So-and-So was a white rapist; and Peg and Betty bring a Black Power flag and the three of them parade in front of that man house whole day. Well is now this doctor know he mess with the wrong woman… But far from leading to inner peace and self-realization, the house is often depicted in Caribbean-Canadian short stories as a trap or even a grave, a sort of outgrowth of a city in which it has been impossible to make room for oneself.

It is hardly the ultimate refuge one could have expected it to be. In another short story by Clarke, "Trying to Kill Herself" 11 , the main female protagonist lives alone in a basement flat, "this underground living, this confining hole" As early as the first pages of the short story, a gloomy and oppressive atmosphere rises from the flat. This fact highlights the urban solitude she suffers from:.

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If any of these things happened, there was no one in the whole world, meaning no one in this city who could find her. Who could come and rescue her. And put her into the ambulance. And if she died, no one to notify anybody. The element in "Trying to Kill herself" that turns things upside down is the intrusion of a dog, asking to be let in, away from the cold and snow.

The woman takes care of the animal until it gets a little too close and familiar, rubbing itself against her legs — she throws it outside again, so violently she has the impression she has killed it. From then onwards, the slow spiral of depression engulfs her. She locks herself in her house, until she meets her own death. She also becomes gradually aware of details in the neighbourhood that she had ignored until then:.

Above her head, she could make out no definition of their lives: She was certain now that she, like Jonah, was a castout, a castaway, an outcast. It becomes quite clear that the house, the district and the city are one and the same hell:. The basement where she had been lying, flat on her back, was like the bowels of the sea, she could feel the encirclement there, the hollowness there, the darkness there; and the rumbling of the furnace, like the organs in a stomach digesting and resisting matter.

And she felt during that time that she was lost in darkness. And so as to identify more precisely with the prophet, even without any prophecy to utter, the woman swallows a handful of pills and drowns herself in her bath tub. It began very slowly, almost imperceptibly, his hating the house in which he lived for fifteen years; and without warning, like the melting of the stub of snow at the end of his walk that signalled in the spring.

This hatred became a rage, an explosion, and consumed his mind. It happened soon after his wife died. Her scent and her spirit remained in the house, quiet at first, and like an aggressive tenant afterwards, taking up most of his time and his space, although he was now occupying the three-storied house by himself. But in this short story, a park just outside the house provides an escape from this misery.

Fifteen years ago this house was on a street whose houses had an ordinary beauty and working-class charm. But all of a sudden the street became popular, enviable and expensive; and just as suddenly the neighbourhood became known as The Annex. He never found out what it was annexed to He watched the street change from a stable, working-class district to one made up of lawyers, university professors and architects.

In "Junice and Stanley" 14 , Junice feels trapped in the city just as she feels trapped in her marriage — again, the city is one of the images for feelings of entrapment and alienation. Nevertheless, it is towards or through the city she drives when one morning, she wants to escape from Stanley and his hypocrisy:. She drove out of her neighbourhood and turned the car in the direction of the highway. That she still did not know where she was going bothered her in a funny kind of way She headed onto the East and the further she got into Scarborough the more concrete structures she began to see.

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She sighed, wondering where she would have to drive to escape the spiralling cement. Suddenly the sky-scrapers tapered off and she was looking at houses. She still felt she had not escaped the masses of concrete. She also desperately tries to get away from the alienations she brought with her from the Caribbean, mainly concerning male-female relationships. At the end, she is one of the few characters who contemplate the future with a stronger, positive outlook: She wanted to rush to the beach.

But not the lake.

It lay stagnant and saltless at the bottom of the city. She needed a piece of water which led out, the vast ocean. The time scheme of the story is one day, time enough for the seven immigrants to know whether their application for refugee status will be accepted or not.

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