Other selves animals in the Canadian literary imagination (Univ. of Ottawa Press, 2007)
Includes bibliographical references and index
The Animals in This Country": Animals in the Canadian Literary Imagination / Janice Fiamengo -- Pt. I. Reading Strategies for Animal Writing -- (B)othering the Theory: Approaching the Unapproachable in Bear and other Realistic Animal Narratives / Gwendolyn Guth -- "Ontological Applause": Metaphor and Homology in the Poetry of Don McKay / Susan Fisher -- "Drawn from Nature": Katherine Govier's Audubon and the Trauma of Extinction / Cynthia Sugars -- Lick me, Bite me, Hear me, Write me: Tracking Animals between Postcolonialism and Ecocriticism / Travis V. Mason -- Yann Martel's Life of Pi: Back in the World, or "The Story with Animals in the Better Story" / Jack Robinson -- Pt. II. Animal Writers -- "So That Nothing May be Lost": Thomas McIlwraith's Birds of Ontario / Christoph Irmscher -- Marshall Saunders and the Urbanization of the Animal / Gwendolyn Davies -- Charles G. D. Robert's cosmic Animals: Aspects of "Mythticism" in Earth's Enigmas / Thomas Hodd -- St. Archie of the Wild: Grey Owl's Account of his "Natural" Conversion / Albert Braz -- "At War with Nature": Animals in Timothy Findley's The Wars / Peter Webb -- Fear, Friendship, and Delight: The appeal of Animals in the Children's Poetry of Dennis Lee / Greg Maillet -- Pt. III. The Politics of Animal Representation -- When Elephants Weep: Reading The White Bone as a Sentimental Animal Story / Ella Soper-Jones -- "The Mania for Killing": Hunting and Collecting in Seton's The Arctic Prairies / Misao Dean -- The Politics of Hunting in Canadian women's Narratives of Travel / Wendy Roy -- National Species: Ecology, Allegory, and Indigeneity in the Wolf Stories of Roberts, Seton, and Mowat / Brian Johnson