What is it about?
This article explores the notion of multiculturalism in Brian Doyle's 1984 novel Angel Square. In so doing, it focuses on Doyle’s eleven-year-old protagonist, Tommy, who confronts the evils of post-war anti-Semitism while working toward a vision of peace despite religious, cultural, and linguistic differences.
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Why is it important?
This article is important because it shows how Doyle's novel confronts a national legacy of colonial oppression, social alienation, and sectarian violence. Set in an era before official multiculturalism, Angel Square offers a depiction of historic Ottawa, the capital of Canada, that reveals both the beauty of cultural pluralism and the horror of poverty and racism.
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This page is a summary of: Multiculturalism, Psychogeography, and Brian Doyle’s Angel Square: “A Dangerous Square to Cross”, Jeunesse Young People Texts Cultures, January 2016, Project Muse,
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2016.0002.
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