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- Title: Crossing the Boundaries of the "Burn": Canadian Multiculturalism and Caribbean Hybridity in Nalo Hopkinson's Brown Girl in the Ring.
- Author : Extrapolation
- Release Date : January 22, 2005
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 230 KB
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Nalo Hopkinson's Brown Girl in the Ring (1998) is set in a near-future Toronto where the affluent businesses, residents, and authorities have withdrawn to the suburbs. Those citizens who are too poor to leave the inner city have to fend for themselves in an environment wracked by urban decay and crime. Consequently, central Toronto has degenerated into an isolated ghetto known as the "Burn" (9). In a 2001 interview Hopkinson states that she based the Burn on the existing situation in an American, not a Canadian, city--central Detroit. She feels that the Ontario government is "using Detroit as a manual," by pulling government funding from the urban areas that most need support (32). This extrapolation from an American model plays upon the common conception of Toronto as Canada's most over-developed city. As such, Toronto is perceived as the Canadian city at greatest risk from the urban problems of crime, gang violence, vandalism, and poverty facing many modern metropolises today.
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