Ponente: Ewa Urbaniak-Rybicka, Profesora Visitante Programa Erasmus+
Día y hora: jueves 21 de marzo, de 17:00 a 19:00
Lugar: Aula de Filología Luis Cernuda, 118
Resumen de la ponencia
In her novel, entitled Surfacing, Margaret Atwood’s male protagonist famously called Canada a country “founded on the bodies of dead animals” (1972: 43). Explaining the above quote with reference to Canada’s past, the session will study the troubled and controversial relationship of human and non-human animals as depicted in selected Canadian literary works in English. Starting with sketching a brief history of people and animals, the presentation will continue with examining animals’ importance throughout Canadian history. A discussion of fauna in selected literary works will follow. The study of multifaceted non-human protagonists will be based on such late 20th century novels as, among others, Marian Engel’s Bear, Timothy Findley’s The Wars and Not Wanted on the Voyage, or Rawi Hage’s Cockroach.
Bionota de la profesora Ewa Urbaniak-Rybicka
Ewa Urbaniak-Rybicka (PhD) is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Language and Communication, State University of Applied Sciences in Konin, Poland. Her main fields of research are postmodern identities, intertextuality, historiographic metafiction, transgression and animal studies. She has published numerous essays on Margaret Atwood, Carol Shields, Aritha van Herk, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Timothy Findley, Rawi Hage and other contemporary Canadian writers. Her most recent publications include “Angels and Demons: Images of Women in Cockroach” in Beirut to Carnival City. Reading Rawi Hage. K. Majer (ed.) (Brill/Rodopi, 2020), “Trans(de)formations – Migrant Traumas in Aga Maksimowska’s Giant.” Cultural Conceptualizations in Language and Communication. B. Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk (ed.) (Springer, 2020) and a chapter coauthored with Bartosz Wolski “British and American Studies” in English Philology. Selected Aspects (2023). In 2013 Ewa Urbaniak-Rybicka co-edited a volume of essays entitled Crossroads in Literature and Culture (Springer) and, in 2017, with Anna Żurawska, the 9th volume of The Polish Association for Canadian Studies annual journal TransCanadiana.
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