Tag: residential-schools
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Violent Colonial Histories and the Limits of Reconciliation: Katherine Govier’s Between Men
Katherine Govier’s Between Men Canadian literature has a fair number of internationally-acclaimed women writers, including in crime fiction. I’m puzzled that Katherine Govier’s work is not more famous, and I think she should be counted in the company of Atwood, Laurence, Gallant, and Munro, although she’s about a decade younger than Atwood. While her first…
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Residential Schools and the Three Pines Adaptation of Louise Penny’s The Cruellest Month
This is not a loose adaptation: it’s more of an interpretation of the themes of Louise Penny’s fiction through a very different story that shares the same title. In putting together the first (and only) season of Three Pines, the producers made some interesting and important choices. One of the key ones was to capture…
The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction 