Inheritance and transcendence: Farley Mowat's contributions to Canadian animal literature

• Published in: AGATHOS-AN INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
• Main Authors: Zhao, Qian; Abdullah, Amalia Qistina Castaneda
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA UNIV IASI FAC PHILOSOPHY & SOCIAL-POLITICAL SCIENCES 2024
• Subjects: Arts & Humanities - Other Topics
• Online Access: https://www-webofscience-com.uitm.idm.oclc.org/wos/woscc/full-record/WOS:001355837400016

As an outstanding representative of contemporary writers in Canadian animal literature, Farley Mowat has created a new form of animal story called the documentary animal novel. While inheriting the realistic writing style of Sidon and Roberts, Mowat has developed the ecological thoughts of hispredecessors in three aspects. Firstly, he pioneered the use of non-fiction in the creation of animal stories. Secondly, hedeveloped the ecological ethics thought of his predecessors. Finally,his evaluation of human beings is more objective. As a conclusion, Mowat's animal novels put the increasingly serious ecological problems on the agenda, reflecting the author's concerns about some existing ecological problems and providing a classic model for the world's ecological literature