Climate Change and Writing the Canadian Arctic

Climate Change and Writing the Canadian Arctic explores the impact of climate change on Canadian literary culture. Analysis of the changing rhetoric surrounding the discovery of the lost ships of the Franklin expedition serves to highlight the political and economic interests that have historically motivated Canada's approach to the Arctic and shaped literary representations. A recent shift in Canadian writing away from national sovereignty to circumpolar stewardship is revealed in detailed close readings of Kathleen Winter's Boundless and Sheila Watt-Cloutier's The Right to Be Cold.

List of contents

1 Franklin's Long Shadow: Representations of the Canadian Arctic.- 2 Becoming Boundless: Kathleen Winter's Arctic Excursion.- 3 Negotiating Sovereignty: Sheila Watt-Cloutier's The Right to Be Cold

About the author

Renée Hulan is Professor at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Her publications include Canadian Historical Fiction: Reading the Remains (Palgrave, 2014) and Northern Experience and the Myths of Canadian Culture (2002). She is the editor of Native North America: Critical and Cultural Perspectives (1999), and with Renate Eigenbrod, of Aboriginal Oral Traditions: Theory, Practice, Ethics (2008). 

Summary

Draws from current events to spotlight the political, economic, and environmental impacts of climate change

Analyzes climate change rhetoric and representations of the Arctic in literature
Explores Canadian identity and culture from an ecocritical perspective
 

Product details

• Authors: Renee Hulan, Renée Hulan
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2018
• EAN: 9783319693286
• ISBN: 978-3-31-969328-6
• No. of pages: 86
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 221 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 230 g
• Illustrations: XI, 86 p.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Literaturtheorie, C, Nordamerika (USA und Kanada), Literaturwissenschaft: 1900 bis 2000, Contemporary Literature, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literary theory, Literature, Modern—20th century, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature, Modern—21st century, Literature—Philosophy, America—Literatures, North American Literature, Postcolonial Canadian literature, Inuit Literature, Bernadette Dean, Canadian nationalism, Indigenous people in Canadian Literature, Aaju Peter, postcolonial perspectives on the Arctic, The Right To Be Cold, Sheila Watt-Cloutier, Inuit activism and global warming