![]() The Wars, unlike some other accounts of Canada’s involvement in World War I, does not romanticize Canada’s role in the war to end all wars, but rather attempts to make readers aware of how such idealizations happened. Historiographic metafiction, then, attempts to make the reader aware of how “History … is made by its writer, even if the events seem to speak for themselves” (231–32). According to Hutcheon, it “thematizes its own interaction both with the historical past and with the historically conditioned expectations of its readers” (231). ![]() Hutcheon defines metafiction as “fiction which is … self-reflective and auto-representational” (228). The Wars, which won the Governor General’s Award for Fiction in 1977, is an example of what influential Canadian literature critic and theorist Linda Hutcheon terms historiographic metafiction. ![]() Alan Dayton, Library and Archives Canada, archival reference number R11811-0-X-E, c151875k-v6 ![]() Portrait of Timothy Findley by Alan Dayton, 1991. ![]()
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