1 Introduction: Nation, Identity, Species
2 Reconfiguring Animal Narratives in Farley Mowat's Never Cry Wolf (1963)
3 Trauma on Display: Women's Wilderness Writing and Animal Ciphers in Margaret Atwood's Surfacing (1972) and Life Before Man (1979)
4 Writing Bear(s): Thematising the Canadian Animal Story in Marian Engel's Bear (1976)
5 Queership, Kinship, Careship: Adopting An Ethics of Care in Timothy Findley's The Wars (1977) and Not Wanted on the Voyage (1984)
6 Unsettling Coyote: Engaging with Indigenous Concepts of Care in Gail Anderson-Dargatz's The Cure for Death by Lightning (1996)
7 Conclusion.