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Writing the Soviet Union as a Settler Canadian: Influences for Then Raise the Dead Man High

Writing the Soviet Union as a Settler Canadian: Influences for Then Raise the Dead Man High

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Jan 09, 2023
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“Fiction set in another era is always speculative,” begins my Author’s Note for Then Raise the Dead Man High. In a recent essay here, "On the Uses and Abuses of History in Literature”, I went one further, by outlining various ways in which historical settings are used to advance contemporary concerns—even when one goal of the work is to convey the past …

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