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
• Soggetto topico: Animals in literature; Human-animal relationships
• 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book explores the 'animal turn' in English literature, focusing on how animals are represented in Canadian literary texts and the implications for national identity, ethics, and human-animal relationships. It examines how animals are portrayed beyond allegorical or metaphorical roles, emphasizing real interspecies interactions. Through analyzing works by authors such as Farley Mowat, Margaret Atwood, and Marian Engel, the book investigates themes like trauma, wilderness, and cultural identity. It also highlights the influence of Indigenous perspectives on animal narratives, advocating for an ethical approach to human-animal relations. Aimed at scholars and students of literature, the book contributes to discussions on animal studies and cultural identity in Canada.
• Titolo autorizzato: Animal Fiction in Late Twentieth-Century Canada
• ISBN: 9783031426124; 3031426126
• 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