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.
