86 - "Unity (1918)": The Spanish Flu Epidemic

Dec 4, 2023

In which we bring back Covid-19 pandemic memories by discussing the Spanish Flu in Canada with the help of Kevin Kerr's excellent 2002 play Unity (1918).

 

Sorry for having posted so little in November - it was pure and simple a scheduling mistake.

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Further Reading:

• Budgell, Anne. We All Expected to Die: Spanish Influenza in Labrador, 1918-1919, ISER, 2018.
• Darroch, Heidi Tiedemann. “The War at Home: Writing Influenza in Alice Munro’s “Carried Away” and Kevin Kerr’s Unity (1918),” Canadian Literature 245, 2021, pp. 90-104.
• Humphries, Mark Osborne. “Paths of Infection: The First World War and the Origins of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic.” War in History, vol. 21, no. 1, 2014, pp. 55–81.
• Kerr, Kevin. Unity 1918, Talonbooks, 2002.