Animal Fiction in Late Twentieth-Century Canada

lt;b>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.

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.