Scholars of Canadian literature investigate the intersection between the categories "Canadian" and "historical" to contribute to the sustained debate about the role the historical novel has
played in the formation of national identity. Their topics include Aim矇e Laberge's Where the River Narrows and the transgenerational gene pool, history and crisis in Hugh MacLennan's Barometer
Rising, Joseph Boyden's Three Day Road, the racialization of Canadian history in African-Canadian fiction 1990-2005, loss in Newfoundland historical fiction, and writing the balance in Alice
Munro's "Meneseteung." Annotation 穢2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
