Storied Waves: Maritime Connections and Subaltern Knowledge in Arctic and Mediterranean Literary Contact Zones

• Main Author: Mackenthun, Gesa
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: Springer International Publishing 2023
• Subjects: Arctic; Merle
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91275-8_2; https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-030-91275-8_2

Abstract Woven around Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein , Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative , Peter Høeg’s Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow , and Merle Kröger’s Havarie ( Collision ), this chapter discusses the concurrence between the search for knowledge and the topic of human disposability in texts...