Arctic modernities : the environmental, the exotic and the everyday / edited by Heidi Hansson and Anka Ryall.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hansson, Heidi, editor.

Ryall, Anka, 1949- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arctic regions--In literature.

Arctic regions.

Arctic regions--In motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (350 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.

Summary:

Less tangible than melting polar glaciers or the changing social conditions in northern societies, the modern Arctic represented in writings, visual images and films has to a large extent been neglected in scholarship and policy-making. However, the modern Arctic is a not only a natural environment dramatically impacted by human activities. It is also an incongruous amalgamation of exoticized indigenous tradition and a mundane everyday. The chapters in this volume examine the modern Arctic from all these perspectives. They demonstrate to what extent the processes of modernization have changed the discursive signification of the Arctic. They also investigate the extent to which the traditions of heroic Arctic images - whether these traditions are affirmed, contested or repudiated - have continued to shape, influence and inform modern discourses. Sometimes the Arctic is seen as synonymous with modernity itself. Sometimes it appears as a utopian space signalling a different future. However, it still often represents the continued survival within modernity of the past as nostalgia, longing, dream and myth.

Contents:

Introduction: environmental, exotic and everyday arctic / Heidi Hansson and Anka Ryall

Ice as a literary motif in Soviet Arctic modernities / Susi K. Frank

Icebergs and light: modernity and the Arctic sublime in Barry Lopez's Arctic dreams / Sigfrid Kjeldaas

Reenacting modernity in the wilderness of the Canadian north: an ecocritical examination of Helge Ingstad's The land of feast and famine / Fredrik Chr. Brøgger

"The poetry of the aeroplane": Arctic flight in twentieth-century Canadian poetry / Renée Hulan

The Arctic pastoral / Henning Howlid Wærp

Early mass tourism at the North Cape: infrastructure, environment and social practices / Ulrike Spring

"Lavish Lapland": gender, primitivism and the pictorial in Olive Murray Chapman's travelogue Across Lapland / Jan Borm

The romance of the fur country: indigenous life between tradition and modernity / Roswitha Skare

The disaster of Franklin: Victorian exploration in the twenty-first-century Arctic / Adriana Cracium

Between the primordial, the modern and the post-modern: the Chukchi writer Yuri Rytkheu

Svalbard in and beyond European modernity / Anka Ryall

Mediating everyday life in Svalbard: Herta Grøndal's photographs, 1950s-70s / Elin Haugdal

Tracing the Arctic crime scene / Cathrine Bjerknes

"A place in the sun": historical perspectives on the debate on development and modernity in Greenland / Kirsten Thisted.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed February 15, 2018).

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ISBN:

1-5275-0691-6

OCLC:

1020319544