Between the Ice Floes: Imaging Gender, Fear and Safety in Antarctic Literature for Young Adults
Ever since first imagined as a site of adventure, discovery and conquest, Antarctica, the southernmost continent, has continued to act as a powerful geographical metaphor for physical, mental and emotional transformation and transubstantiation. The discursive representation of its desolate, ice-boun...
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credinunivpr:10.3366/ircl.2012.0060 2023-05-15T14:11:48+02:00 Between the Ice Floes: Imaging Gender, Fear and Safety in Antarctic Literature for Young Adults Campbell, Caroline 2012 http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2012.0060 https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/full-xml/10.3366/ircl.2012.0060 en eng Edinburgh University Press https://www.euppublishing.com/customer-services/librarians/text-and-data-mining-tdm International Research in Children's Literature volume 5, issue 2, page 151-166 ISSN 1755-6198 1755-6201 Literature and Literary Theory journal-article 2012 credinunivpr https://doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2012.0060 2022-04-09T06:49:43Z Ever since first imagined as a site of adventure, discovery and conquest, Antarctica, the southernmost continent, has continued to act as a powerful geographical metaphor for physical, mental and emotional transformation and transubstantiation. The discursive representation of its desolate, ice-bound landscape and its iconic creatures in image and text is a familiar one. The transmedial representation of the heroic explorer walking out into the white unknown in search of international fame and glory, and ultimate death, is even more a familiar. Antarctic adventure narratives for young adult readers have routinely centred on the male hero as the continent's sole mythic figure. The gendering of the ice, and society's growing concern with environmental sustainability, and the ethics of ecological ownership and resource depletion has resulted in a reframing of this gendered determinism. As a consequence this sub-genre of adventure literature is shifting to accommodate this new environmental perspective. The outcome is a strategic rearranging of heroic types and ironic critique of the passions and utopian ideals informing early narratives of Antarctic exploration and discovery. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica Edinburgh University Press (via Crossref) Antarctic International Research in Children's Literature 5 2 151 166 |
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Ever since first imagined as a site of adventure, discovery and conquest, Antarctica, the southernmost continent, has continued to act as a powerful geographical metaphor for physical, mental and emotional transformation and transubstantiation. The discursive representation of its desolate, ice-bound landscape and its iconic creatures in image and text is a familiar one. The transmedial representation of the heroic explorer walking out into the white unknown in search of international fame and glory, and ultimate death, is even more a familiar. Antarctic adventure narratives for young adult readers have routinely centred on the male hero as the continent's sole mythic figure. The gendering of the ice, and society's growing concern with environmental sustainability, and the ethics of ecological ownership and resource depletion has resulted in a reframing of this gendered determinism. As a consequence this sub-genre of adventure literature is shifting to accommodate this new environmental perspective. The outcome is a strategic rearranging of heroic types and ironic critique of the passions and utopian ideals informing early narratives of Antarctic exploration and discovery. |
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