A Clarion Call for the 'Other':

An Analysis of Eco-thrillers of Farley Mowat

Abstract

Farley Mowat's skillful delineation of fact and fiction marks a very thin line between the two. It permits him to write amazingly, taking modernism to its extreme. He breathes life into old themes and endows with up-to-date taste and variety. In his writings, he retains the sensitivity of a man who is bewildered by what happens in his environs and who must tell about it. His fictional strategy is nothing but his close association of himself with nature and wildlife and of course, with his targeted audiences to launch his theory of ecology. From travel accounts and adventures to beast fables, his writings take the reader into a state vivid imagination, poetic descriptions and commitments to the ideals outlined by him. The writings are so magically blended with the autobiographical accounts, thrilling authorial narrativity and fictional parametres that they seize to have a unique genre.