{"id":3257010,"date":"2019-09-19T15:40:11","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T18:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/?p=3257010"},"modified":"2019-09-19T15:40:11","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T18:40:11","slug":"the-lunchbox-on-history-leanna-thomas-on-comparitive-french-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/specialty\/lunchbox\/the-lunchbox-on-history-leanna-thomas-on-comparitive-french-literature","title":{"rendered":"The Lunchbox on History: Leanna Thomas on Comparitive French Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lunchbox2019-History-LeannaThomas-ComparitiveLiterature.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3257018\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/specialty\/lunchbox\/the-lunchbox-on-history-leanna-thomas-on-comparitive-french-literature\/attachment\/lunchbox2019-history-leannathomas-comparitiveliterature\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lunchbox2019-History-LeannaThomas-ComparitiveLiterature.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1400,1400\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Lunchbox2019-History-LeannaThomas-ComparitiveLiterature\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lunchbox2019-History-LeannaThomas-ComparitiveLiterature-800x800.jpg\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3257018\" src=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lunchbox2019-History-LeannaThomas-ComparitiveLiterature-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lunchbox2019-History-LeannaThomas-ComparitiveLiterature-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lunchbox2019-History-LeannaThomas-ComparitiveLiterature-100x100.jpg 100w, http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lunchbox2019-History-LeannaThomas-ComparitiveLiterature-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lunchbox2019-History-LeannaThomas-ComparitiveLiterature-800x800.jpg 800w, http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lunchbox2019-History-LeannaThomas-ComparitiveLiterature.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s hard, sometimes, to see the impact our region has on the rest of the world &#8212; or how much in sync it is with what is happening half a world away.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My guest today is\u00a0<strong>Leanna Thomas<\/strong>, a PhD student in UNB&#8217;s History department. After a few random encounters with literature in Florida, she&#8217;s found herself entering into a comparative analysis of francophone authors from across the world. Right now, she&#8217;s been\u00a0comparing authors Raymond Guy Leblanc (Acadian) and Sonny Rupaire (Guadeloupean), as well as Antonine Maillet (Acadian) and Simone Schwarz-Bart (Guadeloupean), and finding some interesting parallels.<\/p>\n<p><em>How much do you think you know about New Brunswick history? Personally, I think we do a pretty bad job of teaching it, and most people don&#8217;t embrace it. I&#8217;m on a mission to learn more, so I&#8217;ve invited a collection of historians to help me learn more about the legacies, the achievements, the battles, the inventions, the troublesome eras and the long past of one of Canada&#8217;s oldest regions.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5698\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/The%20Lunchbox%20-%20D20190909%20-%20Interview%20-%20Leanna%20Thomas%20-%20Comparitive%20History.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('5698','http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/The%20Lunchbox%20-%20D20190909%20-%20Interview%20-%20Leanna%20Thomas%20-%20Comparitive%20History.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/powerpress\/play_audio.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" width=\"23px\" height=\"24px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/The%20Lunchbox%20-%20D20190909%20-%20Interview%20-%20Leanna%20Thomas%20-%20Comparitive%20History.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=3257010-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/The%20Lunchbox%20-%20D20190909%20-%20Interview%20-%20Leanna%20Thomas%20-%20Comparitive%20History.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"The%20Lunchbox%20-%20D20190909%20-%20Interview%20-%20Leanna%20Thomas%20-%20Comparitive%20History.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/feed\/podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/subscribe-to-podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My guest today is\u00a0Leanna Thomas, a PhD student in UNB&#8217;s History department. She finds herself entering into a comparative analysis of francophone authors from across the world.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5699\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/The%20Lunchbox%20-%20D20190909%20-%20Interview%20-%20Leanna%20Thomas%20-%20Comparitive%20History.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('5699','http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/The%20Lunchbox%20-%20D20190909%20-%20Interview%20-%20Leanna%20Thomas%20-%20Comparitive%20History.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/powerpress\/play_audio.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" width=\"23px\" height=\"24px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/The%20Lunchbox%20-%20D20190909%20-%20Interview%20-%20Leanna%20Thomas%20-%20Comparitive%20History.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=3257010-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/The%20Lunchbox%20-%20D20190909%20-%20Interview%20-%20Leanna%20Thomas%20-%20Comparitive%20History.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"The%20Lunchbox%20-%20D20190909%20-%20Interview%20-%20Leanna%20Thomas%20-%20Comparitive%20History.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/feed\/podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/subscribe-to-podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player--><p><a class=\"excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/specialty\/lunchbox\/the-lunchbox-on-history-leanna-thomas-on-comparitive-french-literature\">Read more...<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3257018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11622,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3257010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nb-history","category-lunchbox"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lunchbox2019-History-LeannaThomas-ComparitiveLiterature.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3257010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3257010"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3257010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3257021,"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3257010\/revisions\/3257021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3257018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3257010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3257010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3257010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}