76 - The Boer War: Literary Responses

A Cultural History of Canada

Note: Patrick had to record in his kitchen, so there's a slight echo, but everything is clear. In which we talk about how the average person in Canada would have seen the Boer War in South Africa (hint: big questions were asked about why). We talk about a Robert Service poem and Stephen Leacock's famous Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town. ---Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); the recommended reading page (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) ---Contact: [e-mail]; Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory). --- Sources/Further Reading:

• Berger, Carl. The Sense of Power, University of Toronto Press, 1970.
• Brown, Brigitte. “The South African War (1899-1902) and the Transperipheral Production of Canadian Literatures,” Carleton University, 2020.
• Leacock, Stephen. Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, Broadview Press, 1912 [2002].
• Robinet, Alicia C., ““The seal set on our nationhood”: Canadian Literary Responses to the South African War (1899-1902)”, The University of Western Ontario, Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository, 2021.
• Service, Robert W. “The March of the Dead,” Songs of a Sourdough. William Briggs, 1907, pp. 62-65.