35 - Black Robe: Images in Dialogue

In which we use Brian Moore's 1985 novel Black Robe to discuss the use and creation of images by Jesuits missionaries in New France. This also acts as a kind of prelude to a very special episode in two weeks!

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Sources & Further Reading:

• Banchoff, Thomas, and José Casanova, editors. The Jesuits and Globalization: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Challenges. Georgetown University Press, 2016.
• Churchill, Ward. "And they did it in like dogs in the dirt: An American Indian Analysis of Black Robe," Indian are Us? Culture and Genocide in Native North America, Monroe: Common Courage Press, 1994, pp. 115-37.
• Gagnon, François-Marc. "Conversion through the Printed Image," History of the Book in Canada, Volume One: Beginnings to 1840, 2004, pp. 18-22.
• Hicks, Patrick. "The Language of the Tribes in Brian Moore's 'Black Robe.'" Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, vol. 93, no. 372, 2004, pp. 415–426.
• Iroquois History and Legends Podcast. https://open.spotify.com/show/0jGRXOijYiSKEhrTujeBpw?si=8Dr-8Hk4RMu2zQ72PwGwdw
• Leeming, David Adams, and Margaret Adams Leeming. "Algonquin Creation." Oxford Reference, Oxford University Press, 2009.
• Leeming, David Adams, and Margaret Adams Leeming. "Iroquoian Creation." Oxford Reference, Oxford University Press, 2009.
• Moore, Brian. Black Robe, McClelland & Stewart - NCL, 1985.
• Moore, Brian, and Patrick Hicks. "An Interview with Brian Moore." Irish University Review, vol. 30, no. 2, 2000, pp. 315–320.
• Moore, Brian. Wreath for a Redhead, Harlequin, 1951. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53348464-wreath-for-a-redhead
• Richter, Daniel. Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America, Cambridge: Harvard, 2001.
• Trigger, Bruce G. "The Jesuits and the Fur Trade." Ethnohistory, vol. 12, no. 1, 1965, pp. 30–53.
• O'Donoghue, Jo. "Historical Themes, Missionary Endeavour and Spiritual Colonialism in Brian Moore's Black Robe." Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, vol. 82, no. 326, 1993, pp. 131–139.