《身着狮皮》描述了加拿大那些没有盎格鲁—凯尔特或法兰西血统的移民生活 ,展示的是一段迄今为止未被官方书写的历史。作家借鉴意大利画家卡拉瓦乔的“暗色调主义”的创作手法 ,光与影的对照成为小说叙事中最明显的一个特点 ,有力地表现了作品的主题 ,以文学形式对加拿大历史进行了重写。 “Dressed in a lioness,” describes Canadian immigrants living without Anglo-Celtic or French descent, displaying a history that was not officially written to date. The writer draws on the creative technique of “dark colorism” by the Italian painter Caravaggio. The contrast between light and shadow becomes the most obvious feature in the narrative of the novel, which effectively displays the theme of the work and rewrites the history of Canada in literary form.