87 - In the Skin of a Lion: Labour Strikes & (Post) Modernism

Dec 18, 2023

In which we discuss the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike in relation to Michael Ondaatje's In the Skin of a Lion (1987). We get unhinged as we discuss strike tactics, modernism/postmodernism, and Christmas.

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Sources/Further Reading:

• 1919: 100 Years Later. CBC, 2019.
• Masters, Donald C. The Winnipeg General Strike, University of Toronto Press, 1950.
• Ondaatje, Michael. In the Skin of a Lion, Vintage, 1987.
• Spinks, Lee. “In the Skin of a Lion.” Michael Ondaatje, Manchester University Press, 2009, pp. 137–70.