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- ↑ "Governor-General's Awards: 22 authors named finalists"]. The Globe and Mail , May 19, 1984.
- ↑ "Kreiner views Jamaica via indolent whites". Ottawa Citizen , January 12, 1985.
- ↑ Arnold E. Davidson, "Philip Kreiner's Contact Prints and the Problems of Colonial Representation" in Jean-Michel Lacroix, Image et récit. Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 1993. ISBN 978-2878540536. pp. 163-176.
- ↑ "A clash of races in the sub-tropics". The Globe and Mail , January 19, 1985.
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