Animal Fiction in Late Twentieth-Century Canada

• Autore: Higgs Alice
• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2023; ©2023
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (165 pages)
• Disciplina: 813.5409
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Nation, Identity, Species -- Animal Writing in Canada -- 'Nature Fakers': Ernest Seton Thompson and Charles G. D. Roberts -- Why Write About Animals? -- The Chapters -- Chapter 2: Reconfiguring Animal Narratives in Farley Mowat's Never Cry Wolf (1963) -- A New Wolf Story -- Howling: The Signal for Danger? -- Who Is Watching Whom? The Wolf Gaze -- Wolfish Anthropomorphism -- Settler Stories and Indigenous Erasure -- Never Cry Wolf: A Culturally Visible Text -- Conclusion: A New Kind of Story about Animals -- Chapter 3: Trauma on Display: Women's Wilderness Writing and Animal Ciphers in Margaret Atwood's Surfacing (1972) and Life Before Man (1979) -- Violence, Displacement and Patriarchal Objectivity in Surfacing -- Visualising Victimhood in Hunting Displays -- Fictionalising Canadian Complicity in Violence Against Non-Human Animals -- Indigeneity, Animality and Proximity to the Land -- The Pseudo-Wilderness of the Museum in Life Before Man -- Socially Politicised Spaces of Interaction with Animal Bodies -- Forging Personal Identity through Interaction with Museum Display -- Women's Wilderness Writing and the Representational failure of a Pro-Animal Ethics -- Chapter 4: Writing Bear(s): Thematising the Canadian Animal Story in Marian Engel's Bear (1976) -- Framing Narrative 'Failure' as Narrative -- Popular Culture as a Representational Reference -- Bear Asserts His Materiality through Violence -- 'Animal Tracks in the Margin': Meta-Narrative Engagement with Canadian Animal Writing -- A Story about Writing a Story about a Bear -- Chapter 5: Queership, Kinship, Careship: Adopting An Ethics of Care in Timothy Findley's The Wars (1977) and Not Wanted on the Voyage (1984) -- Defining an Ethics of Care -- Re-imagining Heroic Duty through an Ethics of Care in The Wars (1977). ; Horses as Victims: Military Coded Violence Towards Horses -- Queer Resistance -- Camp Climatic Heroism -- Camp Genesis: Caring for those Not Wanted on the Voyage (1984) -- Mrs Noyes and Her Feminist Care Tradition -- Rescuing those 'Not Wanted' -- Caring for the Ark -- Queering, Caring, Kinship: Conclusions -- Chapter 6: Unsettling Coyote: Engaging with Indigenous Concepts of Care in Gail Anderson-Dargatz's The Cure for Death by Lightning (1996) -- Eco-Sexual Spaces and Cross-Species Relations -- Queer[ing] Coyote -- Man, Men, Coyote, Coyotes -- Conclusion: The Question of Species in Indigenous-Settler Conflict -- Chapter 7: Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Pictures -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: Animal Fiction in Late Twentieth-Century Canada
• ISBN: 3-031-42612-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910760249603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature Series