Images of the North : histories, identities, ideas / edited by Sverrir Jakobsson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sverrir Jakobsson, 1970-

Series:

Studia imagologica ; 14.

Studia imagologica ; 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National characteristics--History.

National characteristics.

Arctic regions--History.

Arctic regions.

Arctic regions--In literature.

Arctic regions--Social life and customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (293 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2009.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

data file

Summary:

This interdisciplinary volume seeks to examine and explore the various issues surrounding image construction, identity making and representations of the North, as well as the interconnectedness between those issues. The aim is to elucidate the multiple aspects of the idea of the North, both as a mythological space and a discursive system created and shaped by cultures outside the North as well as from within. The objective of the research project Iceland and Images of the North is to elucidate several aspects of images of the North and to explore their functions in the present, focusing especially on Iceland. What effect have Iceland and its people had on images of the North, and how do those images influence the Icelanders and other nations? The project will be a cooperative, interdisciplinary undertaking by researchers in the humanities and social sciences.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Foreword / Joep Leerssen

Images of the North: Address by the President of Iceland / Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson

The Theory of Climate and the North in Anglophone Literatures / Waldemar Zacharasiewicz

Canada and its Images of North / Sherrill Grace

Food and the North-Icelandic Identity in 13th century Iceland and Norway / Ármann Jakobsson

People and Place in the Far North: A Vision of Life, Community and Change / W. Tad Pfeffer

Of Whales and Men: Images of Iceland and the North Atlantic in Contemporary Whaling Politics / Karen Oslund

Images of Thule: Maps and Metaphors in Polar Exploration / Kirsten Hastrup

Geared for the Sublime: Mobile Images of the North / Edward H. Huijbens and Karl Benediktsson

From Hell to Homeland: Eggert Ólafsson’s Reise igiennem Island and the Construction of Icelandic Identity / Karin Schaer

The Natural Resource Industry Visual Impact Paradox: A Perspective on Alaskan Imagery and Art / Annie Duffy

Icelandic National Images in the 19th and 20th Centuries / Sumarliði R. Ísleifsson

Images of the North from a Distance / Diana Petkova

Inuit Symbols and Canadian Nationhood in the Imagined North / Christopher M. Fletcher

Alaska’s Eternal Frontier: Rural Masculinity and Landscape Nostalgia / Timothy Pursell and Maureen P. Hogan

Cultivating Culture? Images of Iceland, Globalization and Multicultural Society / Unnur Dís Skaptadóttir and Kristín Loftsdóttir

The Use of Images in Aniconic Societies: Occultism, Protestantism and Imagination in Iceland / Christophe Pons

Performances of Scale: Visual Culture and Site-Specific Art in the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Era / Lisa Ann Favero

The Wild Wild North: The Narrative Cultures of Image Construction in Media and Everyday Life / Kristinn Schram

Welcome to Anaktuvuk Pass! / Sarah S. McConnell and Debbie Mekiana Toopetlook

Remote, Rough and Romantic: Contemporary Images of Iceland in Visual, Oral and Textual Narrations / Katla Kjartansdóttir

Index.

Notes:

"The articles here were among a selection of papers given at the conference 'Images of the North. Histories--Identities--Ideas' which was held in Reykjavik, Iceland in February 24-26 2006"--Page [7].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-59415-X

9786612594151

90-420-2906-4

1-4416-0660-2

OCLC:

659500183

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789042029064 DOI