Plucking Women's Lives (and Messages) from the Shorelines of History
Getting Lit with Linda - The Canadian Literature Podcast
English - April 01, 2024 17:10 - 35 minutes - 26.3 MBBooks Arts literature canadian writing books authors canadian writers literary technique indigenous indigenous authors canadian literature Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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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
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