캐나다의 야생 동물 이야기: 생태교육 콘텐츠 정립

Canadian Wild Animal Stories: Structuring Ecological Education Contents

The purpose of this study is to investigate how Canadian wild animal stories are formed and are constructed as literary contents. Wild animal stories are one of the most distinctive genres of Canadian literature. As an alternative to Kiplingian anthropomorphism, Charles Roberts created the realistic animal story and Ernest Thompson Seton established it as a distinctive literary genre. Its influence is realized in the contemporary literary texts like Farley Mowat’s novel, which has a powerful impact upon our daily life. In addition to the narratives of exploration and travel, Canada has a strong literary tradition of settlement and domesticity narratives. Under this literary legacy, an animal as the other self is constructed and Margaret Atwood’s works lies at the apex of it. Canadian imagination is characterized by the coexistence of human beings and wild animals, and is fully realized in the literary texts based upon preserving human kinship with wild animals and establishing an empathic relationship through realistic storytelling. Canada developed this particular genre, and a study and education of wild animal stories contributes to both literary studies in English and Canadian studies.