Plucking Women's Lives (and Messages) from the Shorelines of History

04/01/24 • 35 min

Getting Lit with Linda - The Canadian Literature Podcast

In this episode, Linda and Bryn Turnbull discuss her new historical novel, The Paris Deception - and what it means to represent women's lives historically when there has been inadequate records or representation for them.

Linda considers the Indigo Girls and their song about Virginia Woolf - and listening attentively to the voices of women through time. Turnbull alludes to The Monuments Men (both the movie and the book) and her novel as an equivalent for women to such a story. Among other topics, we address

necessary deceptions (18.56)
significant visual art work still missing since the Second World War (21.30)
women are scapegoats during Second World War (27)

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necessary deceptions (18.56)
significant visual art work still missing since the Second World War (21.30)
women are scapegoats during Second World War (27)

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Previous Episode

"Radical Self-Inclusion" - An Interview with Michael V. Smith

Michael V. Smith is a deeply loving, insightful poet and performer – who uses intimacy and humour as tools to explore pain. In this interview, Linda chats with him about power dynamics and bullying, as they address his poetry collection, Queers Like Me (published by Book*hug in 2023)

Here are some of the subjects we covered:

on the nature of creative writing and genre (6.15)
poetic technique, poetic devices, and poetic voice (verbatim poems: 6.45, 8.00, 42.43)
Facebook poem and writing about his father (9.35, 10.48, 27.50, 32.20)
depictions of masculinity (21.40 mistake with bike/book; 12.05, 21.25)
The Floating Man (13.03, 27.10)
Agnes Varda (12.12)
Eloise Marseille (4.18)
working across genres (16.25)
Michael reads from “Grandma Cooper’s Corpse” (20.25)
humour and contrast (22.42, 24.25)
poetry and knowledge - the function of poetry (37.00)
his chapbook (23.45)
dynamics of power and bullying (32, 32.40, 33.40)
the importance of nuance (34.50)
gay marriage (36.08)
Bronwen Wallace (38.30)
Lorna Crozier (39.20)
His memoir, My Body is Yours (40.38, published by Arsenal Pulp Press)
radical inclusion (46.54)

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Bad Beauty: Marie Claire Blais' Mad Shadows

What does the work of painter Renoir and his paintings of full-bodied women (2.15; 12.34), and tanning beds (2:30) have to do with the Quebecois author Marie Claire Blais (3:15) and La Belle Bette/Mad Shadows (3:20)? Have a listen to today’s episode to find out ...

In this episode, Linda looks at Blais’s Mad Shadows and its historical importance to Quebec. Among other subjects, she also references:

Value Village, Holt Renfrew 1:3; 11:58 )

Sheila Fischman (3:45)

New Yorker (4:47; 16:11)

Margaret Atwood (4:58; 16:24 )

Andre Gide, Andre Breton (5:22; 17:04 )

Karen Kain, Veronica Tennant (6:08; 18:02)

Elle magazine (11:43)

Fluevog Shoes (11:48)

Quel est le rapport entre l'œuvre du peintre Renoir et ses tableaux de femmes épanouies (2.15 ; 12.34), et les lits de bronzage (2:30), et l'auteure québécoise Marie Claire Blais (3:15) et La Belle Bette/Mad Shadows ( 3:20) ? Écoutez l'épisode d'aujourd'hui pour le découvrir...

Dans cet épisode, Linda se penche sur La Belle Bette et son importance historique pour le Québec. Parmi d'autres sujets, elle fait également référence à :

Value Village, Holt Renfrew (1:3 ; 11:58)

Sheila Fischman (3:45)

New Yorker (4:47 ; 16:11)

Margaret Atwood (4:58 ; 16:24 )

André Gide, André Breton (5:22 ; 17:04 )

Karen Kain, Veronica Tennant (6:08 ; 18:02)

Elle magazine (11:43)

Chaussures Fluevog (11:48)

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