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This study provides an in-depth look into the fiction of one of African-Canadian literature's foremost writers, Lawrence Hill. It is the first to provide a comprehensive analysis of Hill's historical fictions which narrates histories rarely told before - whether it is the enslavement of blacks in Canada, de facto segregation or racial profiling.

This anthology employs theories of liminality to discuss Canada's geographic and symbolic boundaries, arguing that "Canada," as a cultural, political, and geographic entity, encapsulates elements which qualify as "liminal." The essays deal with real and imagined borders, as well as contact zones and thresholds in Anglo- and French-Canadian texts.

The author presents the significance of the First World War for the construction of a Canadian national identity by conducting an interdisciplinary analysis. The reconstruction focuses on how Canadian authors have challenged, re-imagined and re-written the -myth to bring to life the experiences of national minorities.