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CONTENTS vii Historical Fiction and Changing Ideas of Canada Andrea Cabajsky and Brett Josef Grubisic PART O ONE A U USABLE P PAST? N NEW Q QUESTIONS, N NEW D DIRECTIONS 3 “A Trading Shop So Crooked a Man Could Jump through the Cracks”: Counting the Cost of Fred Stenson’s Trade in the Hudson’s Bay Company Archive Kathleen Venema 21 Past Lives: Aimée Laberge’s Where the River Narrows and the Transgenerational Gene Pool Cynthia Sugars 39 The Orange Devil: Thomas Scott and the Canadian Historical Novel Albert Braz 53 State of Shock: History and Crisis in Hugh MacLennan’s Barometer Rising Robert David Stacey 67 “And They May Get It Wrong,After All”: Reading Alice Munro’s “Meneseteung” Tracy Ware PART T TWO UNCONVENTIONAL V VOICES: F FICTION V VERSUS R RECORDED H HISTORY 83 Windigo Killing: Joseph Boyden’s Three Day Road Herb Wyile vi C O N T E N T S 99 Telling a Better Story: History, Fiction, and Rhetoric in George Copway’s Traditional History and Characteristic Sketches of the Ojibway Nation Shelley Hulan 113 The Racialization of Canadian History: African-Canadian Fiction, 1990–2005 Pilar Cuder-Domínguez 131 Turning the Tables Aritha van Herk PART T THREE LITERARY H HISTORIES, R REGIONAL C CONTEXTS 151 “To Free Itself, and Find Itself”: Writing a History for the Prairie West Claire Campbell 167 “Old Lost Land”: Loss in Newfoundland Historical Fiction Paul Chafe 183 Imagining Vancouvers: Burning Water, Ana Historic, and the Literary (Un)Settling of the Pacific Coast Owen Percy 197 Too Little Geography; Too Much History: Writing the Balance in“Meneseteung” Dennis Duffy 215 References 237 Contributors 241 Index ...