The Paradoxical Discourse of Language and Silence in Some Contemporary North-American Texts on the Arctic

• Published in: Nordlit
• Main Author: Fredrik Chr. Brøgger
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Norwegian
• Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2012
• Subjects: The North-American Arctic; arctic environmentalism; arctic exploration; arctic literature; Canadian literature; Barry Lopez; Norwegian literature; PT8301-9155; Arctic; Lopez
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.7557/13.2299; https://doaj.org/article/fb941eef71204ce1a2e2ef4e34c1506b

The Arctic has often been regarded (its various indigenous groups notwithstanding) as a desolate and silent void to be explored and defined by Euro-westerners, usuallyin terms of a masculine competitive ethos and an ethnocentric rhetoric of WesternEnlightenment and progress. Surprisingly, even many...