Non-Human Others and Spatial Knowledge in Canadian Prairie Writing

Abstract

<p>What kind of spatial knowledge is projected in Canadian literary texts via figures that are other than human? Parallel to the rise of ecocriticism and animal studies in recent decades, Canadian writing and criticism has sought new ways to represent agency and spatial knowledge in terms which perpetuate neither the traditional national/colonial representations of place and space, nor human authority over other actors who prove capable of transforming both human and other selves. This chapter explores ways to represent spatial knowledge that is other-than-human as proposed in poetry from the Canadian Prairies.<br></p>