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Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction : moments of translation in a divided city -- 1. The crosstown journey of the 1960s -- 2. Diasporic translation : Klein in Mile End -- 3. Bifurcations : Yiddish turned to French -- 4. Paths of perversity : creative interference -- 5. Bridge to Babel : the cosmopolitan city -- 6. Conversations on the mountain : translating memory
The divided Montreal of the 1960s is very different from today's cosmopolitan, hybrid city. Taking the perspective of a walker moving through a fluid landscape of neighbourhoods and eras, Sherry Simon experiences Montreal as a voyage across languages. Sketching out literary passages from the then of the colonial city to the now of the cosmopolitan Montreal, she traces a history of crossings and intersections around the familiar sites and symbols of the city - the mythical boulevard Saint-Laurent, Mile End, the Jacques-Cartier Bridge, Mont-Royal
