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the Nature Fakers controversy impact the representation of animals in
subsequent twentieth-century Canadian literature?
After finding insufficient answers to these questions, the task of re-
examining, re-contextualizing, and re-evaluating the stories and the debate
became the primary focus of my thesis. Though admittedly ambitious, the study
of twentieth-century, post-Nature Fakers Canadian literature was a necessary
context for this re-evaluation; an original and effective gauge for the lasting
influence of Seton
’s and Roberts’ work. Moreover, the general marginalization
of Canadian literature means that the exclusion of any forms of writing from the
national canon may be detrimental. Likewise, if the burgeoning field of literary
animal studies is to establish a zoocentric canon of what Kenneth Shapiro and
Marion Copeland both
described as “robust and respectful” animal
representations (345), we must scrutinize our reasons for omitting any text that
places nonhuman protagonists at the centre of their
own
stories. This is
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