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Arctic Archives Ice, Memory and Entropy Susi K. Frank, Kjetil A. Jakobsen
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Edition Kulturwissenschaft
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arctic.
- Cultural History.
- Eco Studies.
- Anthropocene.
- Cultural Semantics.
- Archaeology.
- Memory Culture.
- Nature.
- Human Ecology.
- Philosophy of History.
- Cultural Studies.
- Local Subjects:
- Arctic.
- Cultural History.
- Eco Studies.
- Anthropocene.
- Cultural Semantics.
- Archaeology.
- Memory Culture.
- Nature.
- Human Ecology.
- Philosophy of History.
- Cultural Studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (317 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Frank/Jakobsen (eds.), Arctic Archives Ice, Memory and Entropy
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2019
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Biography/History:
- Susi K. Frank is Professor of East Slavic literatures and cultures at Humboldt University Berlin. Her research fields are geopoetology; literature/art and (visual) memory; literature and literary politics in (post-)imperial contexts (Russia and Soviet Union).
- Kjetil A. Jakobsen is Professor of history at Nord Universitet Bodo. From 2011 to 2014 he was Henrik Steffens professor at Humboldt University Berlin.
- Summary:
- This pioneering volume explores the Arctic as an important and highly endangered archive of knowledge about natural as well as human history of the anthropocene.Focusing on the Arctic as an archive means to investigate it not only as a place of human history and memory – of Arctic exploring, ›conquering‹ and colonizing –, but to take into account also the specific environmental conditions of the circumpolar region: ice and permafrost. These have allowed a huge natural archive to emerge, offering rich sources for natural scientists and historians alike.Examining the debate on the notion of (›natural‹) archive, the cultural semantics and historicity of the meaning of concepts like ›warm‹, ›cold‹, ›freezing‹ and ›melting‹ as well as various works of literature, art and science on Arctic topics, this volume brings together literary scholars, historians of knowledge and philosophy, art historians, media theorists and archivologists.
- Besprochen in:Zitty, 23 (2019), Claudia Wahjudi
- »Boasting an impressive collection of literary scholars, theorists, and scientists from several disciplinary backgrounds, this thoroughly researched and engagingly written volume provides an excellent foundation for future work on an intriguing and worthwhile subject.«
- Contents:
- Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Acknowledgements 7 Introduction: The Arctic as an Archive 9 On Similarities and Differences between Cultural and Natural Archives 21 Archival Metahistory and Inhuman Memory 37 The Melting Archive: The Arctic and the Archives' Others 49 Landscapes as Archives of the Future? 69 Memory in the Anthropocene: Notes on Slow Archives and Melting Glaciers 93 A Fragment of Future History 107 The Absence of the Arctic 131 The Snowfield as an Archive of Soviet Underground Performance Art 143 Excerpts from Anna Schwartz's Archive 153 Gender in the Twentieth-Century Polar Archive 177 An Arctic Archive for the Anthropocene 197 From Prague to Greenland: Ice Memories in Libuse Moníková's Novel Treibeis (Drift Ice) 221 Myth of Preservation: Images of Ice, Snow and Glaciers as Metaphors for Memory in Post- Holocaust Literature and Art (Sebald, Celan, Baka) 231 Investigating the Labratory of Popular Arctic Narrative in Russian Literature from the 1930s to the 1950s 253 Archives of Knowledge and Endangered Objects in the Anthropocene 269 Natural Archives as Counter Archives: Gulag Literature from Witness to Postmemory 285 Contributors 311
- ISBN:
- 9783839446560
- 3839446562
- OCLC:
- 1128406316
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