{"id":59809,"date":"2020-06-25T17:56:18","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T17:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59809"},"modified":"2020-06-25T17:56:20","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T17:56:20","slug":"maria-campbell-on-the-pain-and-relief-of-re-releasing-halfbreed-with-uncut-account-of-rcmp-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59809","title":{"rendered":"Maria Campbell on the pain and relief of re-releasing Halfbreed with uncut account of RCMP rape"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maria Campbell on the pain and relief of re-releasing <\/strong><\/em>Halfbreed <\/strong>with uncut account of RCMP rape<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

As It Happens<\/a>
\nCBC Radio<\/a>
\n2019-11-29<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nM\u00e9tis<\/a> author and playwright Maria Campbell<\/a> has re-released her seminal 1973 memoir Halfbreed<\/em><\/a> with previously censored pages intact. (Sheena Goodyear\/CBC )<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

M\u00e9tis author says the published version of her 1973 memoir ‘didn’t tell the complete story’<\/em><\/p>\n

Nearly five decades after Maria Campbell<\/a> first published her seminal memoir Halfbreed<\/em><\/a>, she says she finally feels like it’s finished.<\/p>\n

That’s because the first version of the book was incomplete. Two integral pages detailing her account of being raped by a Mountie<\/a> when she was 14 years old had been excised.<\/p>\n

Those long-lost pages were discovered last year in an unpublished manuscript, and now the memoir has been re-released intact for the first time.<\/p>\n

“I feel like it’s finished now, because it never felt finished for me,” Campbell said. “I always felt like there was a part of it that was missing, and that it didn’t tell the complete story.”<\/p>\n

The M\u00e9tis<\/a> author, broadcaster and filmmaker joined As It Happens<\/em><\/a> host Carol Off<\/a> in studio to discuss Halfbreed’s<\/em> legacy and continued relevance today…<\/p>\n

Listen to the story (00:27:32) here<\/a>. Read the transcript here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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