Islands Erased by Snow and Ice: Approaching the Spatial Philosophy of Cold Water Island Imaginaries

• Published in: Island Studies Journal
• Main Author: Johannes Riquet
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Island Studies Journal 2016
• Subjects: Physical geography; GB3-5030; Arctic; Harding; Northwest Passage; Arctic Archipelago; Northwest passage; Passage du Nord-Ouest
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.24043/isj.340; https://doaj.org/article/e5fc3ada965444a79f3ad65871372c7b

Representations of islands in Western fiction typically revolve around tropical islands. Critical discourse tends to reproduce this tendency and rarely addresses the specific spatial poetics of cold-water island fictions. This paper discusses three texts that poetically deploy the geographical inven...