History as Narrative

  • Peter Unwin
    The Wolf's Head: Writing Lake Superior. Viking Press
  • John DeMont
    Coal Black Heart: The Story of Coal and the Lives It Ruled. Doubleday Canada
  • Wayne Johnston
    The Old Lost Land of Newfoundland: Family, Memory, Fiction, and Myth. NeWest Press
Reviewed by Ryan Porter
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This review “History as Narrative” originally appeared in Home, Memory, Self. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 203 (Winter 2009): 188-190.

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