Canadian Ecologies Beyond Environmentalism

Contents

ALESSANDRA BOLLER, ANGELA KREWANI, MARTIN KUESTER

Introduction ................................................................................................. 1

Part I: LITERATURE AND/AS CULTURAL ECOLOGY

DAVID WILLIAMS

On Reading Darwin after Milton: Towards a Literary Ecology .................... 15

ALESSANDRA BOLLER

"[W]hy do we think that everything on Earth belongs to us,

while in reality we belong to Everything?" - Ecological Democracy and

Inclusive Multiculturalism in Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam Trilogy ........ 33

HEIKE SCHWARZ

Un/natural Habitats: Environmentalism and

Environmental Distress Syndrome in Canadian Comics ............................ 59

Part II: MEDIA ECOLOGIES

PAOLO GRANATA

Marshall McLuhan and the Ecology of the Cultural Forms ......................... 83

ANGELA KREWANI

Unending Landscapes and Mythical Origins:

Filmic Ecologies in Canada ........................................................................ 97

RENÉ REINHOLD SCHALLEGGER

Virtual Voices in the Wilderness? -

The Media Ecology of Videogames in Canada .......................................... 115

Part III: FIRST NATIONS ECOLOGIES

MARTIN KUESTER

"Ecological Indians" in "the Global Indian Village": A European

Perspective on Contemporary Canadian First Nations Writing .................. 139

MARIA MOSS

"From Within Fur and Feathers": Game Animals in

First Nations Lives - Past and Present ...................................................... 155

ANGELA WEBER

"This is not about landscape, it's about land." Rebecca Belmore,

Indigenous Art Criticism, and the Canadian Art Discourse (1989-2008) .... 173

Notes on Contributors ................................................................................. 201