In which Patrick has a long discussion with David Austin to discuss the re-release of Fear of a Black Nation. "Situating Canada within the Black radical tradition and its Caribbean radical counterpart, Fear of a Black Nation paints a history of Montreal and the Black activists who lived in, sojourned in, or visited the city and agitated for change. Drawing on Saidiya Hartman’s conception of slavery’s afterlife and what David Austin describes as biosexuality – a deeply embedded fear of Black self-organization and interracial solidarity – Fear of a Black Nation argues that the policing and surveillance of Black lives today is tied to the racial, including sexual, codes and practices and the discipline and punishment associated with slavery."

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In which we turn to a cornerstone of Quebec literature and talk about the pastoral! Written during the 1st World War, Maria Chapdelaine has become a must-read for Quebec literature students... but perhaps for the wrong reasons... --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) ---Contact: [email protected]; Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory). ---Sources/Further Reading

• Deschamps, Nicole. Le mythe de Maria Chapdelaine, Montréal: Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 1980.
• [English] Hémon, Louis. Maria Chapdelaine, trans. by Thoreau MacDonald, Toronto: Macmillian, 1916 [1986].
• Mezei, Kathy. “Quebec Fiction: In the Shadow of Maria Chapdelaine.” College English, vol. 50, no. 8, 1988, pp. 896–903.

In which we discuss a milestone in Canadian realism, Woodsmen of the West (1908). What does it tell us about the early logging industry, workers' rights, and masculinity? A lot actually! --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) ---Contact: [email protected]; Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory). ---Further reading:

• Dean, Misao. “The Construction of Masculinity in Martin Allerdale Grainger’s Woodsmen of the West.” Canadian Literature 149, 1996, pp. 74-87.

• Endicott, Stephen Lyon. “Woodsmen of the West.” Raising the Workers’ Flag: The Workers’ Unity League of Canada, 1930-1936, University of Toronto Press, 2012, pp. 244–62.

• Grainger, M. Allerdale, Woodsmen of the West, New Canadian Library, 1908 [1973].

• Tippett, Maria. “Butchering the Garden of Eden: Martin Allerdale Grainger.” Made In British Columbia: Eight Ways Of Making Culture, Harbour Publishing, pp. 30-50.

In which we discuss legendary long-distance Indigenous runner Tom Longboat and try to simultaneously imagine what kind of cultural items could be made about him and his life! --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) ---Contact: [email protected]; Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory). --- Further reading:

• Forsyth, Janice Evelyn. Reclaiming Tom Longboat: Indigenous Self-Determination in Canadian Sport. University of Regina Press, 2020.
• Hatfield, Philip J. “Colonialism’s Gaze: Representing the First Peoples in Canada.” Canada in the Frame: Copyright, Collections and the Image of Canada, 1895-1924, UCL Press, 2018, pp. 77–105.
• Kidd, Bruce. “In Defence of Tom Longboat,” Sport History Review, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 34-63.
• Kidd, Bruce. Tom Longboat, Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1980.

In which Patrick sits down with Kristin Schwartz to discuss the new book she co-wrote: We Go Where They Go: The Story of Anti-Racist Action. Kristin grew up with the Toronto chapter of ARA from 1992-2003, contributing to the long struggle against white supremacy. She went on to work in community radio and has produced several audio documentaries including Women: the Oppressed Majority (2016) The Ravaging of Africa (2007). Her writing has been published in Our Times, Canadian Dimension, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Monitor and Labour/Le Travail.

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In which we talk about the idea of the Canadian "Wild West", a contender for the Billy the Kid title of Manitoba, and Dennis Cooley's Bloody Jack - all in one episode! --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) ---Contact: [email protected]; Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory). ---

Sources/Further Reading:

• Cooley, Dennis. Bloody Jack, University of Alberta Press, 2002 [1984].
• Gray, James. H. “On the Trail of Jack Krafchenko,” A Boy From Winnipeg, Macmillan, 1970, pp 75-86.
• Stubbs, Andrew. “Accessing the Criminal Paradise in Dennis Cooley’s Bloody Jack and Other Outlaw Fictions,” Bolder Flights: Essays on the Canadian Long Poem, ed. by Angela Robbeson and Frank Tierney, University of Ottawa Press, 1999, pp. 173-187.
• Zeilig, Martin. “The Story of “Bloody Jack” Krafchenko,” Manitoba History 35, Spring 1998, pp. 15-20.

       

In which Patrick sits down with Ricardo Tranjan to talk about his new book, The Tenant Class. Ricardo is a political economist and senior researcher with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Previously, Tranjan managed Toronto’s Poverty Reduction Strategy and his current research is on the political economy of social policy in Canada. Ricardo holds a PhD from the University of Waterloo, where he was a Vanier Scholar. 

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WE'RE BACK! This time, our heroes talk about The Northwest Passage, another Rudy Wiebe novel (A Discovery of Strangers), and the meaning of the Canadian North. Your heroes haven't spoken face-to-face in a bit, so bear with the jokes please. ---Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) ---Contact: [email protected]; Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory). --- Sources/Further Reading:

• Bottez, Monica. “Memory and Place in Rudy Wiebe’s A Discovery of Strangers,” Place and Memory in Canada: Global Perspectives, Polska Akademia Umiejętności, pp. 49-58, 2005.
• Francis, Daniel. "Northwest Passage." The Oxford Companion to Canadian History, Oxford University Press, 2004.
• Wiebe, Rudy. A Discovery of Strangers, Quality Paperback Book Club, 1995.

In which Patrick sits down with Jenny Kay Dupuis to talk about her new book, Heart Berry Bling. Jenny is an award-winning, best-selling author, educator, artist, and well-sought after public speaker who focuses on raising awareness about Indigenous realities through literature and art.

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In which Patrick sits down with acclaimed prairie poet Dennis Cooley to talk about his new work, body works.

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