TY - JOUR

T1 - "Their deaths are not elegant"

T2 - Portrayals of Animals in Margaret Atwood's Writings

AU - Moss, Maria

N1 - ISBN 978-3-95786-014-9. Zugl. Bd. 64: Zeitschrift für Kanada-Studien, 2015/35. Jg./Nr. 1/Bd. 64. Hrsg. von Katja Sarkowsky; Martin Thunert; Doris G. Eibl.

PY - 2015/1

Y1 - 2015/1

N2 - Margaret Atwood, as both an influential literary critic and a highly accomplished writer of poetry, short stories and novels, concentrates in much of her writings on the lives of animals – in the wilderness, as domesticated pets or as laboratory objects. Whereas especially in Atwood’s earlier texts, animals frequently function as symbols of Canadian identity (or the lack thereof ), Atwood starts focusing on the plight of animals apart from any notion of a Canadian identity crisis in her later writings at the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century. Instead, she employs the fates of both hu-mans and animals to demonstrate our mutual dependencies. By focusing on the forma-tive roles played by animals in Atwood’s writings, I will analyse this development in three of her fictional texts which employ animals: her early novel, Surfacing (1972); the dysto-pian novel, Oryx and Crake (2003) and the title story of her collection of short stories, Moral Disorder (2006).

AB - Margaret Atwood, as both an influential literary critic and a highly accomplished writer of poetry, short stories and novels, concentrates in much of her writings on the lives of animals – in the wilderness, as domesticated pets or as laboratory objects. Whereas especially in Atwood’s earlier texts, animals frequently function as symbols of Canadian identity (or the lack thereof ), Atwood starts focusing on the plight of animals apart from any notion of a Canadian identity crisis in her later writings at the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century. Instead, she employs the fates of both hu-mans and animals to demonstrate our mutual dependencies. By focusing on the forma-tive roles played by animals in Atwood’s writings, I will analyse this development in three of her fictional texts which employ animals: her early novel, Surfacing (1972); the dysto-pian novel, Oryx and Crake (2003) and the title story of her collection of short stories, Moral Disorder (2006).

KW - North American Studies

KW - Literature studies

KW - Sustainability Science

UR - http://www.wissner.com/pdfs/9783957860149.pdf

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 35

SP - 120

EP - 135

JO - Zeitschrift für Kanada-Studien

JF - Zeitschrift für Kanada-Studien

SN - 0722-849X

IS - 1

ER -