The Politics of Passion: Norman Bethune's Writing and Art

411 Pages·1998·20.876 MB·English

by  Norman Bethune, Larry Hannant (editor)

THE POLITICS OF PASSION:
NORMAN BETHUNE'S WRITING AND ART
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Edited and introduced by Larry Hannant
The Politics of Passion:
Norman Bethune's
Writing and Art
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
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Toronto Buffalo London
Printed in Canada
ISBN 0-8020-0907-7
Printed on acid-free paper
Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data
Bethune, Norman, 1890-1939
The politics of passion : Norman Bethune's writing and art
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8020-0907-7
i. Bethune, Norman, 1890-1939. 2. Surgeons - Canada - Biography.
3. Surgeons - China - Biography. I. Hannant, Larry, 1950- . II. Title.
R464.B4A31998 617.092 9€ 7-932481-5
University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial assistance to its
publishing program of the Canada Council for the Arts and the
Ontario Arts Council.
To Bill Livant,
mentor and friend
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Contents
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IX
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
i Introduction 3
2 Adventurer: Youth to December 1927 12
3 Crusader: Montreal, 1928-1934 33
4 Convert: 1935-1936 70
5 Anti-fascist: Spain, November 1936 to May 1937 118
6 Propagandist: North America, June 1937 to January 1938 166
7 Anti-imperialist: China, 1938 195
8 Martyr: China, 1939 328
APPENDIX i: Report on the Actions of the Canadian Delegation
in Spain 361
APPENDIX 2: Chronology of the Life of Dr Norman Bethune 365
viii Contents
A NOTE ON SOURCES 369
NOTES 373
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BETHUNE's WORKS 383
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS 385
INDEX 387
Maps appear on pages 120,121, and 196.
Illustrations
The T.B/s Progress (Trudeau Sanatorium mural, 1927) 25-31
Bethune Pneumothorax Apparatus and Bethune Rib Shears 35
Bethune's portrait of Frances Penney (1933) 44
Sketch of Phrenicectomy Necklace 50
Self-portrait (1934) 61
'Compressionist's Creed' (text and Christmas card) 66-7
Bethune's design for a nurse's medal 68
Night Operating Theatre (1935) 75
'Lost' poster (handbill in Bethune's printing) 77
Bethune in bed with jaundice (watercolour sketch, 1935) 81
Self-portrait (1935) 87
'Viva Espana' 116
Photograph of Mao Zedong 229
Photograph of Bethune, General Ho Lung, and Dr Richard Brown 241