Christian J. Krampe taught North American literature and culture at the University of Trier (Germany). He now teaches English and Social Sciences at a high school in Westphalia. His publications include articles on Canadian and US literature as well as teaching English as a foreign language.

• Contents: Collective memory – Maurice Halbwachs – Blacks in Canada – Black Loyalists – African-Canadian literature – Lawrence Hill’s historical fiction – Faction vs. Historiographic Metafiction vs. Documentary Novel – The Slave Narrative – «The Book of Negroes» – «Any Known Blood» – «Some Great Thing» – Interview Lawrence Hill – Interview George Elliott Clarke.

Christian J. Krampe taught North American literature and culture at the University of Trier (Germany). He now teaches English and Social Sciences at a high school in Westphalia. His publications include articles on Canadian and US literature as well as teaching English as a foreign language.

• Contents: Collective memory – Maurice Halbwachs – Blacks in Canada – Black Loyalists – African-Canadian literature – Lawrence Hill’s historical fiction – Faction vs. Historiographic Metafiction vs. Documentary Novel – The Slave Narrative – «The Book of Negroes» – «Any Known Blood» – «Some Great Thing» – Interview Lawrence Hill – Interview George Elliott Clarke.

Christian J. Krampe taught North American literature and culture at the University of Trier (Germany). He now teaches English and Social Sciences at a high school in Westphalia. His publications include articles on Canadian and US literature as well as teaching English as a foreign language.

• Contents: Collective memory – Maurice Halbwachs – Blacks in Canada – Black Loyalists – African-Canadian literature – Lawrence Hill’s historical fiction – Faction vs. Historiographic Metafiction vs. Documentary Novel – The Slave Narrative – «The Book of Negroes» – «Any Known Blood» – «Some Great Thing» – Interview Lawrence Hill – Interview George Elliott Clarke.