Other Selves: Animals in the Canadian Literary Imagination Book

Contributors     vii
"The Animals in This Country": Animals in the Canadian Literary Imagination   Janice Fiamengo     1
Reading Strategies for Animal Writing
(B)othering the Theory: Approaching the Unapproachable in Bear and Other Realistic Animal Narratives   Gwendolyn Guth     29
"Ontological Applause": Metaphor and Homology in the Poetry of Don McKay   Susan Fisher     50
"Drawn from Nature": Katherine Govier's Audubon and the Trauma of Extinction   Cynthia Sugars     67
Lick Me, Bite Me, Hear Me, Write Me: Tracking Animals between Postcolonialism and Ecocriticism   Travis V. Mason     100
Yann Martel's Life of Pi: Back in the World, Or "The Story with Animals is the Better Story"   Jack Robinson     125
Animal Writers
"So That Nothing May Be Lost": Thomas McIlwraith's Birds of Ontario   Christoph Irmscher     145
Marshall Saunders and the Urbanization of the Animal   Gwendolyn Davies     170
Charles G.D. Roberts's Cosmic Animals: Aspects of "Mythticism" in Earth's Enigmas   Thomas Hodd     184
St. Archie of the Wild: Grey Owl's Account of His "Natural" Conversion   Albert Braz     206
"At War With Nature": Animals in Timothy Findley's The Wars   Peter Webb     227
Fear, Friendship, andDelight: The Appeal of Animals in the Children's Poetry of Dennis Lee   Greg Maillet     245
The Politics of Animal Representation
When Elephants Weep: Reading The White Bone as a Sentimental Animal Story   Ella Soper-Jones     269
"The Mania for Killing": Hunting and Collecting in Seton's The Arctic Prairies   Misao Dean     290
The Politics of Hunting in Canadian Women's Narratives of Travel   Wendy Roy     305
National Species: Ecology, Allegory, and Indigeneity in the Wolf Stories of Roberts, Seton, and Mowat   Brian Johnson     333
Index     353