04468nam 22007695 450 991076024960332120251008145111.09783031426124303142612610.1007/978-3-031-42612-4(MiAaPQ)EBC30878264(Au-PeEL)EBL30878264(CKB)28806319700041(DE-He213)978-3-031-42612-4(EXLCZ)992880631970004120231109d2023 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAnimal Fiction in Late Twentieth-Century Canada /by Alice Higgs1st ed. 2023.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2023.1 online resource (165 pages)Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature,2634-6346Print version: Higgs, Alice Animal Fiction in Late Twentieth-Century Canada Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2023 9783031426117 1 Introduction: Nation, Identity, Species -- 2 Reconfiguring Animal Narratives in Farley Mowat’s Never Cry Wolf (1963) -- 3 Trauma on Display: Women’s Wilderness Writing and Animal Ciphers in Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing (1972) and Life Before Man (1979) -- 4 Writing Bear(s): Thematising the Canadian Animal Story in Marian Engel’s Bear (1976) -- 5 Queership, Kinship, Careship: Adopting An Ethics of Care in Timothy Findley’s The Wars (1977) and Not Wanted on the Voyage (1984) -- 6 Unsettling Coyote: Engaging with Indigenous Concepts of Care in Gail Anderson-Dargatz’s The Cure for Death by Lightning (1996) -- 7 Conclusion.Animal Fiction in Late Twentieth-Century Canada fulfils a vital contribution to the conversation surrounding animal representation as a point of continuity in national narratives and supports the idea that focusing on narratives of responsibility and care influences better relations with both non-human animals and across settler-Indigenous boundaries. Alice Higgs engages with on-going debates regarding reconciliation by demonstrating that it is imperative to critique settler colonial environmental frameworks and place autonomy back into Indigenous communities by bringing Indigenous practices of custodianship and relationality to bear more generally. This book also develops a number of conversations in animal studies in relation to the politics of representation. Higgs studies a range of canonical Canadian authors, demonstrating a progress across the period in which it is possible to identify the emergence of a literary pro-animal turn. Alice Higgs is a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Roehampton. She has held Honorary Researcher status at the University of Kent, host to The Centre for Indigenous and Settler Colonial Studies, and she has been a long-term member of the Animal Studies Research Centre at the University of Sheffield. Her research looks at the representation of human-animal relationships in contemporary North American literature.Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature,2634-6346AmericaLiteraturesLiterature, Modern20th centuryLiterature, Modern21st centuryEcocriticismFictionAnimal welfareMoral and ethical aspectsPhilosophyPostcolonialismNorth American LiteratureContemporary LiteratureEcocriticismFiction LiteratureAnimal EthicsPostcolonial PhilosophyAmericaLiteratures.Literature, ModernLiterature, ModernEcocriticism.Fiction.Animal welfareMoral and ethical aspects.Philosophy.Postcolonialism.North American Literature.Contemporary Literature.Ecocriticism.Fiction Literature.Animal Ethics.Postcolonial Philosophy.813.5409Higgs Alice1437337MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910760249603321Animal Fiction in Late Twentieth-Century Canada3598009UNINA