LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ANIMAL ADVOCACY IN CANADA: PRACTICAL ZOOCRITICISM
Candice Allmark-Kent. Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Literature, Science, and Animal Advocacy in Canada: Practical Zoocriticism is the first book-length study of animals in Canadian fiction. Using a historical approach, it offers a much-needed alternative to existing models of animals as symbols of Canadian victimhood. Spanning more than a century, the scope of this book includes classic writers, Ernest Thompson Seton and Charles G. D. Roberts, as well as popular contemporary authors, such as Barbara Gowdy, Yann Martel, Margaret Atwood, and many others.
By recontextualizing these works ...
CASCADIA FIELD GUIDE: ART, ECOLOGY, POETRY
Edited by Elizabeth Bradfield, CMarie Fuhrman, and Derek Sheffield. Mountaineers Press, 2023.
Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry is a book that blends art, science, and literature to celebrate the Cascadia region, which stretches from Alaska to Northern California and from the Pacific Ocean to the Continental Divide. The book is organized into 13 bioregions and includes 128 organism profiles, each with a combination of ecological prose, poetry, and black-and-white art. The guide’s organization encourages readers to consider the connections between different beings, rather ...
RESTLESS IN SLEEP COUNTRY: IMAGINATION AND THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF SLEEP
Paul Huebener. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2024.
Sleep, and the lack of it, is a public obsession and an enormous everyday quandary. Troubled sleep tends to be seen as an individual problem and personal responsibility, to be fixed by better habits and tracking gadgets, but the reality is more complicated. Sleep is a site of politics, culture, and power.
In Restless in Sleep Country, Paul Huebener pulls back the covers on cultural representations of sleep to show how they are entangled with contemporary issues. The book ...