Pullman Porters

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Aboriginals Autofiction

C

Canadian Prairies Colonialism Colonize Community

D

Decolonization Diglossia Disappear/Disappeared Discrimination Disenchanted Duty to remember Dysphoria

E

El Chacotero Emancipation Exiled person

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Fe-male Feminism fiction/théorie

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Gender Gender euphoria Ghettoization Globalization

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Hedonism

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Indian Initiation story (Bildungsroman) Intertextuality

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Masculinist Maternity Migrant

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Native New Narrative

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Overtourism

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Patriarchy Pinochet's dictatorship in Chile Poetic prose Prejudice Pullman Porters Punk

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Queer

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Racial gaslighting Racism Refugee Reserve Residential schools Revolutionary

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Second emigration Segregation Self-writing Social class Sohrab and Rustom Stateless Stereotype Systemic racism

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Territory Theory Toxic masculinity Traditions Transgender identity translation Transphobia Treaty

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Victoria Day

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Wendake — Wendat Whites writing subject/sutured subject

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Yändata’ Yoruba

Literature-specific definitions

No Crystal Stair by Mairuth Hodge Sarsfield

Pullman Porters were men who worked as porters on sleeper cars on the railroad. An American engineer named George Pullman, who designed the Pullman sleeping car, employed formerly enslaved men as porters after the Civil War. In Canada, porters were employed by Canadian Pacific Railway. Porters assisted passengers on trains. Edmund and Otis are both porters ¹ 1 Oyeniran, Channon. “Sleeping Car Porters in Canada.” The Canadian Encyclopedia. 8 February 2019, https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/sleeping-car-porters-in-canada#:~:text=George%20Pullman%20modelled%20his%20train,model%20came%20along%20with%20it, Accessed 25 September 2023. .

See book

1 Oyeniran, Channon. “Sleeping Car Porters in Canada.” The Canadian Encyclopedia. 8 February 2019, https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/sleeping-car-porters-in-canada#:~:text=George%20Pullman%20modelled%20his%20train,model%20came%20along%20with%20it, Accessed 25 September 2023.