Allan Beaton's "Ookpik" Was Here
"The comic was envisioned as an educational text, yet recycles stereotypes about the Arctic before fully transforming it into a modern, northern city. Although “Ookpik” takes place in an exotic setting, it more often educates its readers about southern Canadian life in the 1960s. Nevertheless,...
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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Canadian Review of Comparative Literature/ Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée
2017
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| Online Access: | http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/crcl/article/view/29170 |
| Summary: | "The comic was envisioned as an educational text, yet recycles stereotypes about the Arctic before fully transforming it into a modern, northern city. Although “Ookpik” takes place in an exotic setting, it more often educates its readers about southern Canadian life in the 1960s. Nevertheless, Beaton’s comic offers a glimpse into Canadian cultural identity: it begins with an owl living in the undeveloped Arctic wilderness who, once personified, settles in a town populated by other animal-citizens, and Ookpik responds to similar challenges and problems as his readers." |
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