Overview
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
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Table of contents (3 chapters)
Keywords
- Canadian literature
- the Northwest Passage
- Canadian identity
- Canadian immigrants
- HMS Erebus
- HMS Terror
- Canadian perspectives on the arctic
- Indigenous people of the Arctic
- Kathleen Winter's Boundless
- Impact of climate change on Canadian Literature
- Postcolonial Canadian literature
- Sheila Watt-Cloutier
- The Right To Be Cold
- Inuit Literature
- Aaju Peter
- Bernadette Dean
- Canadian nationalism
- Inuit activism and global warming
- postcolonial perspectives on the Arctic
- Indigenous people in Canadian Literature
About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
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).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Climate Change and Writing the Canadian Arctic
Authors: Renée Hulan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69329-3
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-69328-6Published: 29 December 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-69329-3Published: 29 November 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 86
Topics: North American Literature, Contemporary Literature, Literary Theory