Representations of Women and Nature in Canadian Women's Writing
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Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2008 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald (Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik), language: English, abstract: Canada has always been associated with its landscape, with a vast and inviolate
nature, including prairies, forests with innumerable lakes, idyllic mountain ranges
and the Arctic barrens in the far north. With an area of almost 10 million square
kilometers, Canada is the second largest country in the world, but with only 31
million people living there and a population density of 3,2 inhabitants per square
kilometer, it is also the less populated.1
The theme of nature and wilderness has also been reflected throughout Canadian
literary tradition. As Canadian author Aritha van Herk notes, "[t]he impact of
landscape on artist and artist on landscape is unavoidable" (1992, 139). Adopting the
northern concepts of early explorers and settlers, most literature about the Canadian
wilderness has been written by male authors. For a long time, the Canadian North
served as background for historical romances and adventure stories. The response to
the landscape was often very negative, the wilderness was described as being hostile
and dangerous. Parallel to that image, the landscape was portrayed in female terms,
as being innocent, inviolate and beautiful - the Canadian North appeared as a femme
fatale. Especially in its beginnings, Canadian literature was strongly influenced by its
American and British predecessors and the early writers reinforced the myth of the
Canadian North. In the early twentieth century, the North was mainly a place of
retreat for the fictive heroes of the South who went from the city to the wilderness to
find themselves. One of the most famous texts of this time is Frederick Philip
Grove's autobiography In Search of Myself (1946). His journey to the North became
a synonym for the search of the own self.
nature, including prairies, forests with innumerable lakes, idyllic mountain ranges
and the Arctic barrens in the far north. With an area of almost 10 million square
kilometers, Canada is the second largest country in the world, but with only 31
million people living there and a population density of 3,2 inhabitants per square
kilometer, it is also the less populated.1
The theme of nature and wilderness has also been reflected throughout Canadian
literary tradition. As Canadian author Aritha van Herk notes, "[t]he impact of
landscape on artist and artist on landscape is unavoidable" (1992, 139). Adopting the
northern concepts of early explorers and settlers, most literature about the Canadian
wilderness has been written by male authors. For a long time, the Canadian North
served as background for historical romances and adventure stories. The response to
the landscape was often very negative, the wilderness was described as being hostile
and dangerous. Parallel to that image, the landscape was portrayed in female terms,
as being innocent, inviolate and beautiful - the Canadian North appeared as a femme
fatale. Especially in its beginnings, Canadian literature was strongly influenced by its
American and British predecessors and the early writers reinforced the myth of the
Canadian North. In the early twentieth century, the North was mainly a place of
retreat for the fictive heroes of the South who went from the city to the wilderness to
find themselves. One of the most famous texts of this time is Frederick Philip
Grove's autobiography In Search of Myself (1946). His journey to the North became
a synonym for the search of the own self.
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